Proto-Indo-European

*bʰleh₃-

‘leaf, blossom, flower’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-.

78 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-, most familiar first.

• full ← fullen ← fuller ← foler ← fullāre
• blood ← blōd ← *blōd ← *blōþą
• blow ← blowen ← blōwan ← *blōaną
• flower ← flour ← flur ← flōrem ← *flōs
• fool ← fouler ← fouller ← foler ← *fullāre
• bloody ← blody ← blōdiġ ← *blōdag ← *blōþagaz
• blade ← blad ← blæd ← *blad ← *bladą
• bless ← blessen ← bletsian ← *blōdisōn ← *blōþą
• bloom ← blome ← blóm ← *blōmô ← *blōaną
• floral ← flōrālis ← flōs ← *flōs ← *bʰléh₃s
• foil ← foilen ← fouler ← fullō
• bleed ← bleden ← blēdan ← *blōdijan ← *blōdijaną

More words from *bʰleh₃-

• flora
• blossom
• flourish
• folly
• folio
• ferret
• florist
• fleur
• flor
• folic
• bloodless
• bloomer
• belladonna
• exfoliate
• florid
• florin
• trefoil
• trifolium
• blat
• foliation
• forint
• floret
• phyllo
• refoulement
• folium
• florescence
• phyllite
• fiorino
• floruit
• floreal
• foliaceous
• aphyllous
• bluidy
• bloodsome
• chromphyllite
• deflour
• diphyllous
• effloresce
• floweret
• floriography
• florulent
• floscularian
• floscule
• floriform
• floretum
• folivore
• foliophagy
• foliole
• foliferous
• foliolate
• foulage
• foliform
• foliophagous
• foliicolous
• interfoliate
• infoliate
• molybdophyllite
• niobophyllite
• phyllode
• phyllodium
• phyllobolia
• phulkari
• phyllon
• refoul
• sfogliatella
• trifoly

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-