Proto-Indo-European

*h₁weh₂-

‘empty, wasted’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-.

46 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-, most familiar first.

• want ← wanten ← vanta ← *wanatōną ← *wanô
• various ← varieux ← varius ← *wasios
• waste ← wast ← wast ← *wōstī ← *wōstaz
• variety ← varieté ← varietās ← varius ← *wasios
• vast ← vaste ← vastus ← *wāstos ← *(h₁)weh₂-stos
• vacation ← vacacioun ← vacacion ← vacātiō ← vacō
• vary ← varien ← varier ← variō ← varius
• variable ← variare ← varius ← *wasios
• void ← voide ← vuit ← *vocitum ← vacuus
• vacant ← vacāns
• vain ← veyn ← vānus ← *wānos
• vanity ← vanite ← vanité ← vānitas ← vānus

More words from *h₁weh₂-

• evacuate
• vanish
• wasteful
• vacate
• waning
• wane
• devastate
• vacuous
• varicella
• evanescent
• vainglorious
• variola
• vanitas
• variorum
• westy
• vacuity
• vastus
• prevaricate
• vair
• vaunt
• evanesce
• variometer
• vacat
• evanid
• evanish
• supervacaneous
• vastity
• variole
• variolous
• variolite
• variograph
• vaniloquy
• viruela
• wanse

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-