Proto-Indo-European

*lewg-

‘to bend’

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

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

• lock ← lok ← loc ← *lok ← *luką
• reluctant ← reluctāns ← reluctor ← lū̆ctor
• reluctance ← relū̆ctor ← lū̆ctor
• leek ← lēac ← *lauk ← *laukaz ← *leukaną
• loke ← loca ← *lukô
• luchador ← lū̆ctātor ← lū̆ctor
• obliquity ← obliquité ← oblīquitās ← oblīquus ← licinus
• forelock ← forelocc ← locc ← *lukk ← *lukkaz
• ineluctable ← inēlūctābilis ← ēlūctor ← lū̆ctor
• obliquus ← licinus ← *lecinos
• colluctation ← colluctor ← luctor
• colluctancy ← collū̆ctor ← luctor

More words from *lewg-

• eluctable
• lucarne
• luctation
• luthern
• obliquation
• reluctancy
• reluctor
• reluct
• reluctation

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *lewg-