Proto-Indo-European

*ǵneh₃-

‘to recognise’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.

132 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-, most familiar first.

• can ← cunnan ← *kunnan ← *kunnaną ← *ǵn̥néh₃ti
• know ← knowen ← cnāwan ← *knāan ← *knēaną
• could ← coude ← cūþe ← cunnan ← *kunnaną
• known ← knowen ← cnāwan ← *knāan ← *knēaną
• note ← not ← nota ← nōscō ← gnōscō
• normal ← normālis ← nōrma ← γνώμων
• knowledge ← knowleche ← knowen ← cnāwan ← *knāan
• notice ← nōtitia ← nōtus ← nōscō ← gnōscō
• recognize ← reconoistre ← reconoistre ← recognosco ← cognōscō
• ignore ← ignorer ← īgnōrō
• recognition ← recognicion ← recognicion ← recognitiōnem ← recognitus
• narrative ← narratif ← narrātīvus ← narrō ← *gnārāō

More words from *ǵneh₃-

• glory
• con
• noble
• ken
• notion
• keen
• cognitive
• ignorant
• norm
• diagnostic
• notorious
• notation
• nobility
• cunning
• cognition
• norma
• prognosis
• narration
• denote
• quaint
• gnome
• notoriety
• notary
• normative
• keenly
• incognito
• agnostic
• annotation
• canny
• connoisseur
• uncouth
• acquaint
• canna
• kith
• gnosis
• noblesse
• annotate
• recognizance
• cognizance
• ignoble
• precognition
• normale
• cun
• connote
• reconnoiter
• denotation
• reconnoitre
• jnana
• cognoscenti
• gnomon
• gnomic
• agnosia
• notate
• prosopagnosia
• prajna
• kenning
• notitia
• couth
• gyani
• gnotobiotic
• abnormity
• abnormous
• agnize
• agnition
• agnogenic
• agnomical
• agnosic
• agnoprotein
• agnosopsia
• antinobilism
• autotopagnosia
• barognosis
• beknow
• cardiognosis
• chawn
• cognoscente
• cognovit
• cognosce
• cognoscitive
• cognoscent
• cognoscence
• cogniscient
• dignotion
• enarration
• gnotobiont
• gnotobiote
• gnotobiota
• gnomonics
• gnoscopine
• groma
• hemiagnosia
• hierognosis
• ignoscible
• inenarrable
• kithe
• knaa
• knowen
• morphognosis
• narrable
• notificate
• nobilissimus
• notabilia
• nobilify
• notatin
• notory
• notative
• notaphilic
• pangnosis
• phonagnosia
• prosopagnosic
• prenote
• praecognita
• precognosce
• quaintrelle
• recognosce
• recognitive
• retrognosis
• selcouth
• stereognosis
• thanatognomonic

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-