Proto-Indo-European

*h₁ey-

‘to go’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-.

44 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-, most familiar first.

• initial ← initiālis ← initium ← inīre ← eō
• transition ← transitio ← itiō ← eō ← *eō
• initiative ← *initiativus ← initiare ← initium ← ineo
• ion ← ἰόν ← εἶμι ← *éimi ← *h₁éyti
• ambitious ← ambitieus ← ambitiosus ← ambitio ← ambiō
• ambition ← ambicioun ← ambitiō ← ambiō ← eō
• initiate ← initiātus ← initiō ← initium ← ineō
• ambient ← ambiēns ← ambiō ← eō ← *eō
• initiation ← initiātiō ← initiō ← initium ← ineō
• eid ← eið ← *aidiją
• itinerary ← itinerarie ← itinerārium ← iter ← *eitər
• eyre ← eire ← erre ← iter ← eō

More words from *h₁ey-

• sedition
• isthmus
• cation
• initiator
• ambiance
• ambit
• iter
• anionic
• preta
• dysprosium
• carbanion
• vamonos
• ambitus
• dianion
• ambiate
• anionization
• anionize
• fluoroanion
• ineunt
• interanion
• itive
• monoanion
• oxyanion
• oxoanion
• polyanion
• superanion
• subitive
• tetraanion
• thioanion
• trianion
• yede
• yode

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-