Proto-Indo-European
*pel-
‘to drive, strike, thrust’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *pel-.
100 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *pel-, most familiar first.
- film ← filme ← filmen ← *filmīn- ← *filmīn-
- felt ← *pilto
- simple ← symple ← simplus ← *sem-
- simply ← symply ← symple ← simple ← simplus
- push ← pushen ← pousser ← poulser ← pulsō
- filter ← filtre ← filtrum ← *felt ← *fellą
- powder ← poudre ← poudre ← pulverem ← pulvis
- complain ← complaynen ← complaindre ← complangere ← plangere
- fold ← folden ← fealdan ← *falþan ← *falþaną
- pulse ← puls ← pous ← pulsus
- pillow ← pilwe ← pyle ← *pulwī ← pulvīnus
- repeal ← repeler ← rapeler ← repellō ← pellō
More words from *pel-
- impulse
- flaw
- pollen
- unfold
- palate
- compulsive
- expel
- repel
- palpable
- palladium
- propel
- palatable
- pall
- pelt
- wallow
- peloton
- polemic
- tuple
- pollinate
- palatal
- muffle
- apoplexy
- peplum
- pulver
- palp
- pillion
- interpolate
- phin
- plectrum
- palpitation
- pellicle
- palpate
- pilch
- paillard
- pulverization
- fauteuil
- pulvinar
- simpleness
- palpitate
- peplos
- pelisse
- catapeltic
- faldetta
- fewter
- folden
- ghoonghat
- heteropelmous
- interpellate
- palpebra
- paillette
- palpator
- palatoglossal
- palatize
- palative
- palpebrate
- palatic
- palynivore
- palateless
- palpon
- palatelike
- palatitis
- papyropolist
- pellicule
- pellage
- peplomer
- pelidnoma
- pellicula
- pelma
- pelioma
- peplosphere
- pollinic
- polemology
- pollinose
- polverine
- pollinosis
- poudrette
- polemonium
- polemize
- pollinivore
- pollinigerous
- pulverisation
- pulverulent
- pulverine
- pulvillio
- pulvisculus
- retropulsive
- schizopelmous
- sympelmous
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Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *pel-