Proto-Indo-European
*mey-
‘to attach, bind, strengthen’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *mey-.
118 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, most familiar first.
- mean ← menen ← mǣnan ← *mainijan ← *mainijaną
- community ← communite ← communité ← commūnitās ← commūnis
- common ← comun ← comun ← commūnis ← comoinis
- met ← meten ← mætan ← *maitijan ← *maitaną
- minister ← ministre ← ministre ← minor ← *minōs
- minute ← mynute ← minūtus ← minuō ← *minuō
- commission ← commissioun ← commissiō ← committō ← mittō
- communication ← comunicacioun ← communicacion ← commūnicātiōnem ← commūnicātiō
- ministry ← mynisterie ← menistere ← ministerium ← minister
- minor ← *minōs ← *minuō ← *minéwti
- mess ← mes ← mēse ← mē(n)sa ← mittō
- meal ← mole ← māl ← *mailą
More words from *mey-
- min
- commonly
- commit
- communist
- menu
- mutual
- communicate
- compromise
- immune
- missile
- mere
- minus
- ammunition
- immunity
- dismiss
- premise
- communism
- municipality
- communal
- mole
- communion
- mural
- ammo
- mayhem
- noodle
- intermittent
- moor
- commune
- remuneration
- telecommunication
- mite
- omit
- monolith
- minstrel
- excommunication
- mitra
- mitre
- mitosis
- meiosis
- munition
- missive
- minuet
- micrometer
- menudo
- communistic
- minutia
- anticommunist
- mure
- meed
- minstrelsy
- minestrone
- comminution
- mune
- minish
- meatus
- diminuendo
- municipio
- mitomycin
- remunerate
- communitas
- maitri
- miosis
- commonalty
- misal
- postcommunist
- gmina
- municipium
- mittimus
- communard
- antemural
- circummure
- comminuible
- communistical
- cryptocommunist
- dimit
- excommunicator
- fideicommissum
- immure
- mathom
- meionite
- mereing
- minuend
- ministrant
- mitogenesis
- mittent
- mitome
- microabrasion
- mithuna
- microabrasive
- microaberration
- microabrade
- micropanic
- murus
- munite
- muniment
- munerate
- muropeptide
- muramic
- murenger
- muriform
- murage
- munerary
- noncommunist
- precommunist
- procommunist
- uncommunist
- minimum
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Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *mey-