Proto-Indo-European

*kleh₂w-

‘key, hook, nail’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w-.

50 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w-, most familiar first.

• close ← closen ← clusen ← clȳsan ← *klūsijan
• include ← includen ← inclūdere ← claudere
• exclusive ← exclūsīvus ← excludere ← claudō ← *klaudō
• closet ← clos ← clausum ← clausus ← claudō
• closure ← clausura ← claudō ← *klaudō
• inclusion ← inclūsiō ← inclūdō ← claudō ← *klaudō
• clause ← clausa ← clausus ← claudō ← *klaudō
• inclusive ← inclusif ← inclūsīvus ← inclūsus ← inclūdō
• conclude ← concluden ← conclūdō ← claudō ← *klaudō
• disclose ← disclosen ← desclos ← desclore ← disclaudere
• exclude ← exclūdō ← claudō ← *klaudō
• preclude ← praeclūdere ← claudō ← *klaudō

More words from *kleh₂w-

• cataract
• recluse
• conclave
• enclose
• cloister
• occlusion
• sluice
• inclusiveness
• claustrophobia
• cloture
• subclavian
• inclusively
• cloisonne
• seclude
• eclosion
• preclusion
• clafoutis
• inclusivism
• clausula
• aquiclude
• claustration
• claustrophobe
• claustrophilia
• clausure
• cloison
• clausular
• disclude
• disclusion
• inclusivist
• includence
• noninclusive
• overinclusive
• reclude
• seclusive
• subclavius
• superinclusive
• ultrainclusive
• uninclusive

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w-