Proto-Indo-European

*bʰuH-

‘to grow, swell, be’

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

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

• be ← been ← bēon ← *beun ← *beuną
• been ← ġebēon ← bēon ← *beun ← *beuną
• power ← poer ← pooir ← potēre ← posse
• possible ← possibilis ← possum ← *possom ← *som
• future ← futur ← futūrus ← sum
• present ← presenten ← presenter ← praesentō ← praesens
• build ← bilden ← byldan ← *buþlijan ← *buþlą
• physical ← physicālis ← physica ← φυσική ← φυσικός
• improve ← improbō ← probō ← *proβāō ← *proβos
• presence ← praesentia ← praesēns ← praesum ← sum
• essential ← essentiālis ← essentia ← *essēns ← sum
• bond ← bonde ← bōnda ← bóndi ← būend

More words from *bʰuH-

• represent
• bush
• bound
• physics
• absence
• contribution
• representation
• presentation
• physician
• entity
• booth
• approve
• probability
• absent
• favorable
• distribute
• contributor
• fiat
• bun
• favourable
• bondage
• bouquet
• retribution
• attribution
• imp
• absentee
• rebuke
• impotent
• impossibility
• bower
• aren
• absentia
• beamer
• bosque
• phylogeny
• physic
• phylum
• approbation
• busk
• boor
• bist
• futur
• buisson
• potentate
• boodle
• erbium
• bhumi
• abeam
• bouchon
• emboss
• boun
• potentilla
• ambuscade
• beest
• physis
• phylon
• lowboy
• beme
• bhoot
• favori
• paraphyletic
• citybound
• potence
• phyton
• buron
• hautbois
• bosk
• absentation
• absit
• approbative
• approbator
• attributor
• ballybetagh
• beeth
• bhavai
• blastophyly
• bosket
• boscage
• boiserie
• bosberaad
• buscon
• bydlo
• chairbound
• comprobate
• diphyodonty
• diphycercal
• diphygenic
• diphyozooid
• diphyodont
• emphyteusis
• emphyteuticary
• fautor
• fautrix
• fautress
• histophyly
• hoboy
• homophyly
• improbate
• improbation
• infaust
• morphophyly
• organophyly
• phylarch
• phytophagy
• phyle
• physiophyly
• probableness
• probator
• probabiliorist
• presentaneous
• presentiation
• representamen
• symphytism

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-