Proto-Indo-European
*(s)ker-
‘to cut off, sever’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
159 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-, most familiar first.
- short ← schort ← sċort ← *skurt ← *skurtaz
- across ← acros ← an croiz ← crois ← crux
- share ← schar ← sċear ← *skaraz
- card ← carde ← carda ← *carito ← carō
- cross ← cros ← kross ← cros ← crux
- cancer ← *kankros ← *karkros ← *kr-kr-
- screen ← scren ← escren
- score ← scoru ← skor ← *skurō
- shirt ← schirt ← sċyrte ← *skurtijā ← *skurtijǭ
- circle ← cercle ← circulus ← circus ← κίρκος
- circuit ← circuitus ← circuire ← circum ← circus
- crucial
More words from *(s)ker-
- curve
- scare
- circus
- circulation
- skirt
- carnival
- curb
- scar
- cancellation
- scrutiny
- shrine
- scarf
- crest
- circa
- corona
- coronary
- shear
- scorpion
- incarceration
- shred
- carnage
- raffle
- circulate
- carcinoma
- cancerous
- corolla
- scorn
- shrewd
- crux
- shard
- carnal
- cirque
- riddance
- circulatory
- crepe
- shearing
- carnivorous
- corgi
- ruck
- shrew
- corollary
- chancel
- scurvy
- carrion
- carnation
- carnivore
- ridding
- cornice
- shortbread
- canker
- currier
- screed
- shrewdly
- chancellery
- incarcerate
- kurta
- recurve
- shearling
- scrimp
- shrewdness
- cruciferous
- crista
- sculpin
- cuirass
- carnivora
- cruzeiro
- corm
- vincristine
- circumspection
- carceral
- unsearchable
- scrat
- corium
- coriaceous
- cancellous
- excoriate
- cricoid
- skerry
- curculio
- cenacle
- skyr
- carnassial
- incarnadine
- scurf
- chancre
- cuirassier
- circulus
- coronis
- caruncle
- cancrine
- cancellus
- cancrivorous
- carnin
- carnate
- carnivoracity
- caruncula
- carniceria
- cenatory
- charper
- circumambient
- circumaural
- circinate
- circination
- circannual
- circumforanean
- circumbendibus
- circumclusion
- circumspective
- circumcursation
- circensian
- coronilla
- cormophyte
- cortissimo
- corbe
- coroniform
- cormogeny
- coronule
- courb
- cormus
- cormidium
- cormoid
- cristate
- curvet
- curvate
- curtate
- curtation
- curvity
- curvicostate
- curvograph
- curvicaudate
- curviserial
- curviform
- curvinerved
- cuirie
- ecranisation
- epicorium
- frounce
- incurvate
- incurvity
- korzec
- macrocormic
- quarrons
- recurvous
- scorpaeniform
- schorl
- scorpaenid
- shreward
- sharp
From Wiktionary, by Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); adapted. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-