Proto-Indo-European

*peth₂-

‘to fly’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-.

111 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-, most familiar first.

• pass ← passen ← passer ← *passāre ← passus
• mile ← myle ← mīl ← *mīliju ← mīlia
• expansion ← expānsiō ← expandō ← pandō ← *pandō
• repeat ← repeten ← repeter ← repeter ← repetō
• compete ← competer ← competere ← petō ← *péth₂eti
• pen ← penne ← penne ← penne ← penna
• expand ← espaundre ← expandō ← pandō ← *pandō
• petition ← peticiun ← petitio ← petō ← *péth₂eti
• passage ← passer ← *passāre ← passus ← *pat-s-tus
• patent ← patēns ← pateō ← *patēō ← *pandō
• helicopter ← hélicoptère ← πτερόν ← *pterón ← *péth₂r̥
• competent ← competens ← competō ← petō ← *péth₂eti

More words from *peth₂-

• competitor
• compass
• feather
• symptom
• perpetual
• repetition
• spawn
• impetus
• expanse
• perpetuate
• trespass
• symptomatic
• perpetuity
• pennant
• passable
• petulant
• patina
• pinion
• impetuous
• patella
• pata
• penna
• petulance
• asymptote
• traipse
• ptosis
• symptomatology
• pterygoid
• impetigo
• pase
• passerine
• spandrel
• patera
• pteranodon
• propitiate
• pterygium
• ornithopter
• passata
• dipteran
• ptomaine
• pterostigma
• petechia
• passerelle
• passen
• aberdevine
• antiptosis
• apetalous
• appetence
• appetible
• appetition
• apteran
• apteral
• apterium
• cerebripetal
• compital
• competitrix
• dipteros
• hexapterous
• impetigines
• impetiginous
• monopteros
• patress
• patibulum
• patulous
• patana
• patteran
• pandiculate
• passeriform
• patibulary
• patena
• paremptosis
• pasitrote
• pennaceous
• pennate
• penniform
• petitor
• pennatula
• pennage
• petalism
• petalody
• peripterous
• petalum
• periptery
• pennal
• petasius
• peripter
• potamography
• potamian
• pteroclid
• pteron
• pteronophobia
• pteroma
• pteroid
• pteruge
• pteric
• repetitio
• repand
• suppeditate
• triptote

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-