Proto-Indo-European

*speḱ-

‘to see, to look, to observe’

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

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

• special ← especial ← speciālis ← speciēs ← speciō
• respect ← respectus ← respiciō ← speciō ← *spekjō
• specific ← specifique ← specificus ← speciēs ← speciō
• despite ← despit ← despit ← dēspectum ← dēspiciō
• species ← speciō ← *spekjō ← *spéḱyeti
• perspective ← perspectiva ars ← perspectivus ← perspectus ← perspicere
• aspect ← aspectus ← aspiciō ← speciō ← *spekjō
• scope ← scopo ← scopus ← σκοπός ← σκέπτομαι
• spectrum ← speciō ← *spekjō ← *spéḱyeti
• inspector ← īnspiciō ← speciō ← *spekjō ← *spéḱyeti
• spy ← spien ← espier ← *spiō ← *spehōn
• inspection ← inspeccion ← īnspectiō ← īnspiciō ← speciō

More words from *speḱ-

• spectacular
• spite
• expectation
• speculation
• suspicion
• spice
• specify
• specimen
• skeptical
• inspect
• spectacle
• spectator
• speculative
• microscope
• retrospective
• speculate
• espionage
• conspicuous
• retrospect
• specter
• expectant
• skeptic
• kaleidoscope
• inconspicuous
• spectroscopic
• especial
• endoscopic
• macroscopic
• gyroscope
• circumspect
• specious
• speculator
• espy
• specular
• microscopical
• prospekt
• perspicacity
• macroscopically
• perspicacious
• mesoscopic
• bioscope
• borescope
• bronchoscope
• telescopically
• perspicuous
• chronoscope
• haruspex
• perspicuity
• aeroscope
• amnioscope
• amblyoscope
• ambispective
• anorthoscopic
• anorthoscope
• angioscope
• anemoscope
• anomaloscope
• anoscope
• antroscope
• antroscopic
• anascopic
• aspectable
• aspection
• astroscope
• astroscopic
• autophonoscope
• baroscope
• baroscopic
• bioscopy
• cardioscope
• cardioscopic
• cephaloscopic
• chromatoscope
• choledochoscope
• chromoscope
• chronoscopic
• colonoscope
• conspection
• coproscopic
• colonofibroscopic
• cryoscope
• cryoscopic
• cryptoscope
• cryomacroscopic
• culdoscope
• cyclonoscope
• debusscope
• electroscopic
• fibroscopic
• fibrobronchoscopic
• foetoscopic
• foetoscopically
• gonioscopy
• gonioscope
• gonioscopic
• gonioscopically
• haruspicy
• hysteroscopic
• macroscopicity
• megascopic
• mesoscopically
• megalethoscope
• megascopically
• milliscopic
• monoscopic
• monoscopically
• multiscopic
• necroscopic
• nontelescopic
• orthoscopic
• perspectograph
• perspicil
• perspicable
• photoscopic
• phototelescopic
• photoscopically
• pleuroscopic
• polyscopic
• pretelescopic
• proctoscopic
• prospicuous
• proctoscopically
• prospekty
• radioscopic
• radiotelescopic
• radioscopically
• retroperitoneoscopic
• scopophilia
• scopophile
• scopophilism
• semimacroscopic
• sigmoidoscopic
• somatoscopic
• spae
• speciosity
• speculatory
• spectant
• spectaculum
• speculatrix
• specillum
• spectation
• specifical
• spectatrix
• submacroscopic
• transpeciate
• videoscopic

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-