Proto-Italic

*reis

‘thing, matter’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Italic *reis.

23 English words in this record descend from Proto-Italic *reis, most familiar first.

• real ← reel ← reālis ← rēs
• re ← rēs
• reality ← réalité ← reālitās ← reālis ← rēs
• realise ← réaliser ← real ← reel ← reālis
• realisation ← réaliser ← real ← reel ← reālis
• rebus ← rēs
• reification ← rēs
• realis ← rēs
• hyperreality ← reality ← réalité ← reālitā ← reālis
• realia ← realis ← rēs
• irrealis ← reālis ← res
• irreal ← irrealis ← reālis ← res

More words from *reis

• antireality
• disreality
• irreality
• macroreality
• neoreality
• nonreality
• revendication
• reism
• semireality
• superreality
• telereality

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *reis