Proto-Indo-European

*bʰolh₃yom

‘leaf’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom.

21 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom, most familiar first.

• folly ← feuille ← feuille ← fueille ← folia
• folio ← folium
• folic ← folium
• exfoliate ← exfoliō ← folium
• trefoil ← trifoil ← trifolium ← folium
• trifolium ← folium
• foliation ← folium
• folium
• foliaceous ← foliaceus ← folium
• folivore ← folium
• foliophagy ← folium
• foliole ← folium

More words from *bʰolh₃yom

• foliferous
• foliolate
• foliform
• foliophagous
• foliicolous
• interfoliate
• infoliate
• sfogliatella
• trifoly

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom