Words that come from Indo-European “*ser-”
400 words across 26 languages descend from Indo-European *ser- — including service, sort, serve, observation, servant, observe, server, serving.
See the etymology of *ser- itself →
English (283)
- service
- sort
- serve
- observation
- servant
- observe
- server
- serving
- conservative
- reserve
- resort
- deserve
- observing
- observer
- sergeant
- reservation
- reservoir
- Conservative
- observable
- sorting
- dessert
- servitude
- conservatism
- Serbian
- serviceable
- observational
- conserve
- subservient
- consort
- consortium
- Cervantes
- Palermo
- Serb
- sorcery
- conservatory
- sorcerer
- concierge
- serf
- sortie
- subservience
- conservatively
- serfdom
- preservice
- neoconservative
- servlet
- conservator
- underserved
- disservice
- unobservable
- maidservant
- sorter
- manservant
- servitor
- subserviency
- foodservice
- conserver
- serviceability
- unserviceable
- sorbitol
- observability
- servient
- serviceman
- neoconservatism
- servicer
- reservist
- neocon
- conservancy
- sortes
- interobserver
- servanthood
- conservatorship
- ultraconservative
- conservatee
- observationally
- unreserve
- servicemember
- sortal
- nonconservative
- deserveth
- sarge
- dessertspoonful
- observably
- quicksort
- interservice
- sorbate
- conservativism
- serviceableness
- sorb
- multiservice
- sortition
- conservatoire
- Multics
- semidesert
- deservest
- bondservant
- Sorbian
- sorcerous
- conservativeness
- intraobserver
- sorbic
- observeth
- serviceberry
- sortable
- semiconservative
- servicescape
- servest
- unobserving
- serfage
- archconservative
- subserviently
- conservant
- serviceably
- disserve
- sortilege
- Panormus
- listserve
- consortial
- dessertspoon
- nonobservable
- timeserver
- heapsort
- servery
- unobservability
- multiserver
- postobservation
- unconservative
- servantless
- mergesort
- reservable
- desertic
- nonreservation
- nonservice
- Sorb
- servitute
- reservationist
- serviceperson
- observingly
- neoconservativism
- presort
- LISTSERV
- eyeservice
- observest
- enserfment
- preobservation
- fileserver
- servable
- sortation
- sortase
- Serbdom
- sorbite
- serverless
- sorteth
- keyserver
- observee
- nonobservation
- paleoconservative
- servicemark
- superserviceable
- disserviceable
- anticonservative
- ultraconservatism
- reservor
- servicewoman
- servitorship
- listserver
- womanservant
- reservee
- servantship
- observership
- sergeantry
- reassort
- reserver
- unobservably
- deserver
- nonreserve
- Ormosia
- postservice
- consortship
- overconservative
- observationality
- teleservice
- Serbism
- serflike
- malobservation
- underserve
- resortlike
- unserviceability
- nonobservational
- Shellsort
- megaresort
- woolsorter
- consortion
- triservice
- unserviceableness
- resorter
- besort
- servantry
- sorcerously
- sorbitic
- resorteth
- semiconservatively
- enserf
- paleoconservatism
- sergeantship
- nonserving
- observationalist
- consorteth
- conservatrix
- nonserver
- conserveth
- servitress
- microserver
- ensorcellment
- serfhood
- sorbin
- bioreserve
- countersorcery
- consorter
- serfish
- overserve
- ecoresort
- reobservation
- misobserve
- superconservative
- consortest
- inservient
- serviceless
- undeserver
- nonobservability
- ensorcell
- cervantite
- unsortable
- homocon
- underservant
- archconservatism
- nonservant
- paleocon
- reservative
- misserve
- unservable
- eyeservant
- servee
- reservice
- reobserve
- unserviceably
- dessertlike
- sortance
- overservice
- sortability
- nonobserver
- conservatize
- nonsortal
- semiservitude
- serfship
- inobservable
- undeserve
- serveable
- unservice
- antiservice
- conservatization
- misobservation
- Conservadox
- ressie
- reserveless
- microserf
- missort
- dessertless
- observerless
- servantly
- outserve
- Serbness
- observableness
- pseudoservice
- nondessert
- conservatorylike
- consortable
- servantess
- service tree
- sortably
- civil service
- sorbic acid
- fanservice
- service agreement
Latin (37)
- conservans
- conservator
- consortium
- consortio
- sortitus
- deservire
- servire
- inobservabilis
- observatio
- observare
- praeservare
- praeservo
- servus
- servientem
- serviens
- servitium
- sorbus
- sorbum
- sors
- sortilegium
- sortilegus
- servio
- sortem
- Panormus
- sortire
- sortis
- serva
- servitudo
- servitus
- conservatio
- consors
- observo
- subserviens
- subservio
- sorte
- conservus
- reservo