Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “-ess”
400 words across 1 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European -ess — including besides, yours, whilst, sports, hers, ours, earnings, hydrogen.
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English (400)
- besides
- yours
- whilst
- sports
- hers
- ours
- earnings
- hydrogen
- hierarchy
- Aristotle
- bases
- nitrogen
- upstairs
- Edwards
- theirs
- Phillips
- es
- Socrates
- monarch
- downstairs
- backwards
- evenings
- homogeneous
- ms
- needles
- Vegas
- forwards
- cords
- Hercules
- olds
- endogenous
- estrogen
- Jennings
- waitress
- Aristotelian
- countess
- exogenous
- pathogen
- Walters
- transgenic
- sportsman
- heiress
- pathogenic
- Wilcox
- scratches
- Euclid
- Pericles
- Sophocles
- Dawkins
- Simons
- glycogen
- monarchical
- unawares
- dehydrogenase
- fleece
- deuce
- oligarchy
- Demosthenes
- Socratic
- hydroxyl
- Diogenes
- Reuters
- priestess
- androgen
- anthropogenic
- Coles
- Archimedes
- nitrogenous
- Hippocrates
- Dawes
- hearse
- thrombocytopenia
- Diocletian
- pliers
- Pausanias
- hereabouts
- abbess
- baroness
- Heracles
- homogenization
- lioness
- carcinogenic
- seamstress
- Mondays
- fleecy
- whiles
- Thales
- neurogenic
- prophetess
- plasminogen
- neutropenia
- fibrinogen
- inhomogeneous
- authoress
- Cowles
- iatrogenic
- Empedocles
- Tuesdays
- Anaxagoras
- hydroxylase
- Patroclus
- stewardess
- angiogenic
- quince
- poetess
- laundress
- carcinogen
- Pollux
- hydrogenation
- Ingalls
- pathogenicity
- shepherdess
- biogenic
- handbags
- cryogenic
- whoops
- oligarchic
- misogynist
- sportsmanship
- mitogen
- autogenous
- benefactress
- psychogenic
- oncogenic
- teratogenic
- murderess
- hallucinogenic
- Jakes
- immunogenicity
- hydroxylation
- shenanigans
- cardiogenic
- deuced
- khakis
- adulteress
- misogynistic
- exogenously
- huntress
- thrombocytopenic
- homogeneously
- heterogenous
- carcinogenicity
- youse
- endogenously
- osteopenia
- Praxiteles
- prioress
- adventuress
- protectress
- osteogenic
- Aristotelianism
- echogenic
- immunogenic
- Aristoteles
- endorphin
- myogenic
- odontogenic
- yous
- antiangiogenic
- ancestress
- myelogenous
- Diomedes
- sportswriter
- photogenic
- temptress
- pyogenic
- Archimedean
- sportswear
- androgenic
- leukopenia
- portress
- deaconess
- proprietress
- polygenic
- erogenous
- giantess
- homogenize
- Euclidian
- Daws
- hematogenous
- cyanogen
- instructress
- hierarchal
- electrics
- viscountess
- levonorgestrel
- Anaximenes
- seductress
- toxics
- dehydrogenation
- echogenicity
- noons
- foundress
- Antisthenes
- atherogenic
- Willes
- unsportsmanlike
- middlings
- nitrogenase
- criminogenic
- dihydrogen
- ogress
- teratogenicity
- epileptogenic
- arrhythmogenic
- hallucinogen
- hydrogenase
- readies
- sportsmanlike
- microfluidics
- anagen
- Quakeress
- Heraclea
- hydroxylamine
- tetrarch
- songstress
- ergogenic
- monogenic
- Presocratic
- directress
- richesse
- glycogenolysis
- ketogenic
- imagen
- nonpathogenic
- oligarch
- pancytopenia
- nephrogenic
- mutagen
- nonhomogeneous
- peeress
- tumorigenic
- entomopathogenic
- Androcles
- hyperandrogenism
- bronchogenic
- Smokies
- manageress
- teratogen
- cryptogenic
- steroidogenic
- Phillipsburg
- deucedly
- autogenic
- methanogenic
- trypsinogen
- radiogenic
- diethylstilbestrol
- zymogen
- abouts
- Gazza
- munchies
- lysogenic
- isogenic
- anchoress
- allogenic
- homogenizer
- chromogenic
- vasogenic
- lymphopenia
- sempstress
- dinitrogen
- Xenocrates
- embryogenic
- pedogenic
- toxigenic
- ambassadress
- Sophoclean
- Aikens
- hierarch
- antiestrogen
- antiandrogen
- nitrofurantoin
- leopardess
- cervicogenic
- tumorigenicity
- conductress
- chieftainess
- pepsinogen
- cosmogenic
- discogenic
- thermogenic
- chalcogenide
- preceptress
- thrombogenic
- clonogenic
- chlorogenic
- wardress
- pyrogenic
- oxyhydrogen
- sculptress
- immunogen
- Aristotelean
- amyloidogenic
- phytoestrogen
- citizeness
- mayoress
- whilest
- urobilinogen
- monitress
- inexpressibles
- numerics
- demoness
- morphogen
- lipogenic
- anticarcinogenic
- Dawkes
- spermatogenic
- seismogenic
- fluorogenic
- dauphiness
- cariogenic
- telegenic
- dysgenic
- sithence
- seeress
- hydantoin
- chondrogenic
- arbitress
- anthropogenically
- osteopenic
- Moabitess
- Teletubbies
- enteropathogenic
- lactogen
- nontransgenic
- hydrogenic
- pyrogen
- proangiogenic
- anopheles
- authigenic
- depressogenic
- cryogenically
- uglies
- erotogenic
- doctress
- villainess
- glycogenosis
- anxiogenic
- kininogen
- amelogenin
- antiestrogenic
- canoness
- haematogenous
- electrogenic
- digoxigenin
- adipogenic
- axiomatics
- homogeneousness
- cryogen
- janitress
- antihydrogen
- volcanogenic
- Romes
- sportsperson
- tailoress
- emetogenic
- millionairess
- sportswoman
- phytopathogenic
- cytopenia
- stereogenic
- ocotillo
- ontogenic
- inhomogeneously
- chromogen
- chiefess
- pythoness
- hierarchial
- hyperechogenic
- uroporphyrinogen
- vitellogenic
- votaress
- multigenic
- hydrogenolysis
- hydrogenous
- fluidics
- Socratism
- technogenic
- sarcoptic
- obesogenic
- bants
- norgestrel
- antiandrogenic
- Iraklion
- Empedoclean
- Leonids
- glucogenic
- abiogenic
- thrombogenicity
- porogen
- druidess
- noncardiogenic
- hypoechogenic
- fibrogenic
- glycogenic
- sportswriting
- anorexigenic
- endogenic
- hyperandrogenic