Proto-Indo-European

*peḱ-

‘to pluck, ruffle, tousle, shear’

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

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

• fight ← fighten ← feohtan ← *fehtan ← *fehtaną
• fighting ← feghtyng ← feohtende ← *fehtandz ← *fehtaną
• fellow ← felawe ← fēolaga ← félagi ← félag
• fee ← feoh ← *fehu ← *fehu ← *péḱu
• fighter ← fightere ← feohtere ← feohtan ← *fehtan
• peculiar ← pecūliāris ← pecūlium ← pecus ← *pekos
• fax ← feax ← *fahs ← *fahsą ← *poḱsom
• feud ← feudum ← *fehu ← *fehu ← *péḱu
• cynical ← cynicus ← κυνικός ← κῠ́ων ← *ḱwṓ
• hound ← hund ← *hund ← *hundaz ← *ḱwṓ
• feudal ← feodal ← feodalis ← feodum ← *fehu
• fawn ← fawnen ← fagnian ← fæġnian ← *faginōn

More words from *peḱ-

• poodle
• cynic
• feu
• pec
• fain
• pecuniary
• faxed
• chenille
• fow
• impecunious
• feudatory
• canaille
• befight
• canail
• cteniform
• ctene
• cynarrhodium
• depeculation
• depectible
• feodatory
• foughten
• infight
• pashmak
• peculation
• peculate
• peculator
• pectinated
• pecunious
• peculium
• pectiform

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peḱ-