Proto-Indo-European

*bʰer-

‘to bear, carry’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.

199 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-, most familiar first.

• different ← differēns ← differō ← ferō ← *ferō
• offer ← offrian ← offerō ← ferō ← *ferō
• difference ← differentia ← differēns ← differō ← ferō
• bar ← barre ← barre ← *barra ← *barros
• birth ← birthe ← burðr ← *burþiz ← *bʰértis
• reference ← referentia ← referō ← ferō ← *ferō
• transfer ← trānsferō ← ferō ← *ferō ← *bʰéreti
• bear ← beren ← beran ← *beran ← *beraną
• prefer ← preferren ← preferer ← praeferō ← *praiferō
• broad ← brood ← brād ← *braid ← *braidaz
• suffering ← suffer ← suffren ← suffrir ← *sufferīre
• bread ← brede ← brǣdu ← *braidį̄ ← *braidaz

More words from *bʰer-

• relative
• suffer
• translation
• extraordinary
• relation
• fortune
• relate
• burden
• differently
• bearing
• barrel
• preference
• differ
• barn
• referendum
• frustration
• bore
• translate
• fury
• baron
• breeze
• referee
• bark
• fertility
• borne
• fertile
• differentiation
• berth
• indifferent
• broom
• phosphate
• extravagant
• barrow
• embargo
• fret
• phosphorus
• euphoria
• defer
• confer
• infertility
• infer
• fertilization
• ferret
• frustrate
• elated
• deference
• infra
• infertile
• extraneous
• insufferable
• ablation
• elation
• collation
• fertilize
• dysphoria
• semaphore
• differentially
• furtive
• bier
• dilate
• collate
• deferential
• differentiable
• ablative
• bahar
• proffer
• furtively
• efferent
• oblate
• differentiator
• estrange
• indifferently
• birr
• barrette
• bairn
• burnish
• phosphine
• oblation
• offertory
• ambar
• sufferance
• dilatory
• barm
• deferent
• prolate
• brehon
• elate
• phoria
• sufferable
• relazione
• elative
• illative
• indifferentism
• translative
• delate
• abear
• ablatio
• adiaphoron
• afference
• amphoreus
• amphoreis
• antidifference
• arseniferous
• bairnish
• bairnless
• bidifferential
• brisling
• cephalophore
• circumfer
• collative
• collatitious
• codifferential
• codifferentiate
• cryophorus
• cytodifferentiate
• cytodifferential
• delative
• dedifferentiate
• delator
• differentness
• differentiatory
• differentialize
• dysphoriant
• elaiophore
• embarge
• equidifferent
• equidifference
• feretory
• feretrum
• forthbear
• fretum
• fringillaceous
• fringilliform
• furuncle
• furacity
• furacious
• homophora
• idoneous
• idoneity
• illation
• infortunate
• indifferentist
• indifferentness
• inferrible
• indifferentistic
• indifferentiate
• leucophore
• misdifferentiate
• multidifferential
• neurodifferentiate
• nondifferential
• nondifferent
• nondifference
• obley
• onomatophore
• parapherna
• paradifferential
• phoresy
• phorophyte
• photodifference
• phoresis
• phosphorical
• prolation
• profer
• profert
• psychophor
• redifferentiate
• referrible
• retinophora
• retrodifferentiate
• serodifferent
• sublate
• subdifferential
• symphoric
• symphoria
• telpher
• thermodifferential
• theyfab
• theymab
• transdifferentiate
• transdifferential
• ultradifferential
• underbear
• unindifferent
• undifferential
• urbarium
• waybread

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-