Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “bheh₂meh₂-”
150 words across 33 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European bheh₂meh₂- — including famous, fame, infamous, famously, infamy, defamation, femme, defamatory.
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English (48)
- famous
- fame
- infamous
- famously
- infamy
- defamation
- femme
- defamatory
- infamously
- infame
- nonfamous
- fameless
- famousness
- unfamous
- famoused
- semifamous
- antidefamation
- nondefamatory
- femmy
- disfame
- superfamous
- fameworthy
- infamousness
- enfame
- ultrafamous
- ultrafemme
- defamatorily
- infamize
- femme fatale
- microfame
- semifame
- en femme
- cyberdefamation
- famelessness
- femmeslash
- uber-famous
- femmephobic
- femmephobia
- cyberfame
- unfame
- fame-ish
- famacide
- e-fame
- e-famous
- microfamous
- defamatoriness
- fames
- infamie