Proto-Indo-European

*weyh₁-

‘to pursue’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-.

84 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-, most familiar first.

• previous ← praevius ← via ← *wiā ← *wih₁eh₂-
• obvious ← obvius ← via ← *wiā ← *wih₁eh₂-
• violent ← violentus ← vīs ← *wīs ← *wéyHs
• virtual ← vertual ← vertüal ← virtuālis ← virtūs
• violation ← violātiō ← violō ← vīs ← *wīs
• inevitable ← inēvītābilis ← ēvītābilis ← ēvītāre ← vitō
• virtue ← vertu ← vertu ← virtus ← vir
• voyage ← viage ← viage ← viaticum ← viāticus
• convey ← conveien ← conveier ← *convio ← via
• violate ← violaten ← violat ← violātus ← violō
• vengeance ← vengeaunce ← vengier ← vindicō ← vindex
• trivial ← triviālis ← trivium ← trivius ← via

More words from *weyh₁-

• envoy
• trivia
• vis
• deviation
• avenge
• virtuous
• deviant
• vindication
• virtuoso
• venison
• wer
• viaduct
• ochre
• vim
• virile
• virility
• violator
• inviolable
• virago
• trivium
• obviate
• viator
• venation
• feen
• venge
• virial
• revanchist
• evite
• revanchism
• envoi
• vindex
• revanche
• viaticum
• proem
• inion
• evitable
• venery
• bivious
• bivium
• devitable
• evirate
• evitative
• evitation
• evertuate
• hyperinosis
• hypinotic
• hypinosis
• hyperinotic
• inosilicate
• iniencephaly
• inogen
• invious
• proemium
• prooemion
• renvoi
• renvoy
• revanchisme
• venatic
• venatorial
• venatio
• venary
• vengement
• veneur
• viaticals
• virtueless
• viatic
• viraginous
• viary
• virole
• viameter
• viatecture
• vindical

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-