Proto-Indo-European

*ken-

‘dust’

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

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

• recent ← recēns
• nod ← nodden ← *hnodian ← *hnodōn ← *hnudōną
• incinerate ← incinerātus ← incinerō ← cinis ← *kenis
• nosh ← נאַשן ← naschen ← naskōn ← *hnaskwōn
• recency ← recentia ← recens
• cinerea ← cinereus ← cinis ← *kenis
• nookie ← neuken ← *noken ← *nuken ← *hnukēn
• aconite ← aconit ← aconītum ← ἀκόνιτον ← κονίω
• cinereous ← cinereus ← cinis ← *kenis
• aconitum ← ἀκόνιτον ← κονίω ← κόνις
• conative ← conatio ← cōnor ← *kōnāje/o- ← *kṓnh₁-ie-
• caenogenesis ← καινός ← *kəňňós ← *kn̥-yós

More words from *ken-

• cinerite
• cinerarium
• cinerulent
• cineraceous
• cineration
• cinerous
• cnidocyte
• cnida
• conation
• conidium
• conite
• cryoconite
• nief
• otoconite
• pneumonoconiosis
• eccentric

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ken-