Proto-Indo-European

*gʷem-

‘to come, to step’

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

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

• come ← comen ← cuman ← *kweman ← *kwemaną
• become ← becomen ← becuman ← *bikwemaną ← *kwemaną
• coming ← cominge ← cumende ← *kwemandz ← *kwemaną
• event ← ēventus ← ēveniō ← veniō ← *gʷəniō
• base ← basis ← βᾰ́σῐς ← *gʷə́tis ← *gʷémtis
• basic ← base ← base ← base ← basis
• basis ← βάσις ← *gʷə́tis ← *gʷémtis
• revenue
• convention ← conventiō ← conveniō ← veniō ← *gʷəniō
• adventure ← aventuren ← aventurer ← aventure ← *adventūra
• avenue ← avenir ← adveniō ← veniō ← *gʷəniō
• bass ← base ← base ← base ← basis

More words from *gʷem-

• venue
• bases
• diabetes
• inventory
• cum
• convenience
• advent
• intervene
• inventor
• invent
• souvenir
• provenance
• pug
• convene
• cometh
• contravention
• basset
• bassoon
• revenant
• basso
• misadventure
• circumvention
• contravene
• debase
• quim
• adventitious
• anabasis
• subvention
• aventurine
• parvenu
• abase
• katabatic
• comen
• prevenient
• conventicle
• provenience
• venire
• diabatic
• adventive
• inventio
• veny
• abasia
• abaisse
• advenient
• advenement
• advention
• anabasius
• anabatic
• basidium
• bassetto
• baseis
• baenopod
• bathmism
• bathmophobia
• basophobia
• catabasion
• contrabasso
• diabaterial
• evene
• eventuation
• intervenient
• inventrix
• katabasis
• metabasis
• pervention
• prevenience
• prevene
• prevenance
• provene
• queme
• venitive
• ycomen

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-