Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “kawd-teh₂”
400 words across 40 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European kawd-teh₂ — including because, cause, chest, chose, causing, accused, excuse, causal.
See the etymology of kawd-teh₂ itself →
English (157)
- because
- cause
- chest
- chose
- causing
- accused
- excuse
- causal
- accusation
- causation
- accuse
- arouse
- arousal
- causality
- rouse
- accusing
- cos
- rousing
- causative
- ruse
- accuser
- causally
- chested
- roust
- accusatory
- accusingly
- cuz
- causeless
- causeth
- recusant
- hyperarousal
- causer
- recuse
- recusancy
- recusal
- rouser
- noncausal
- chesty
- causelessly
- acausal
- monocausal
- anticausative
- accuseth
- multicausal
- accusatorial
- causee
- causerie
- causest
- barechested
- arousable
- excuser
- windchest
- chestful
- excusal
- overarousal
- arccos
- accusal
- midchest
- causalism
- causational
- causatively
- causalist
- unaccused
- rousingly
- causelessness
- nonaccusatory
- excuseth
- excusability
- recusation
- multicausality
- arouser
- accusant
- counteraccusation
- irrecusable
- acausality
- noncausative
- unarousable
- causationist
- coaccused
- accusatorily
- excuseless
- causable
- rousable
- accusest
- noncausally
- accusive
- unrousable
- accusable
- excusation
- concause
- rouseth
- uprouse
- unaccusing
- chestiness
- rearousal
- accusor
- irrecusably
- nonarousal
- chestedness
- arouseth
- microarousal
- forcause
- rearouse
- accusee
- unaccusable
- chestal
- unaccusably
- accusatorially
- microcausality
- retrocausal
- arousest
- retrocausality
- acausally
- chestless
- excusest
- chestily
- preaccusation
- rousest
- recusable
- intercausal
- subcause
- causidical
- accusatrix
- chestlike
- bookchest
- toychest
- uncausal
- unaccusingly
- causeful
- polycausal
- reaccusation
- accusably
- reaccuse
- 'cause
- 'scuse
- cause célèbre
- uncausally
- multicausative
- noncausatively
- isocausal
- isocausality
- by-cause
- chestguard
- rule of coss
- chestpad
- unexcusability
- rousingness
- retrocausally
- crescentchest
- chestly
- unrousing
- accuseress
- counteraccuse
- unaccusatory
- vera causa
- coolchest
- accusator
Latin (59)
- causa
- accusans
- accusare
- accusator
- causalis
- causalitas
- causidicalis
- recuso
- recusatio
- recusant
- accusatio
- accusatorius
- accuso
- accusabilis
- accusatorem
- refusare
- excuso
- accusatrix
- accusatorie
- accusito
- recusare
- incuso
- incusans
- incusatus
- excusare
- accusatus
- recusatus
- excusatio
- recusandus
- recusans
- causor
- accusandus
- incausabilis
- excusans
- excusaturus
- excusatus
- excusandus
- incusaturus
- incusandus
- accusaturus
- recusaturus
- accuser
- excusationem
- excusabundus
- accusitans
- accusitaturus
- accusitatus
- accusitandus
- causans
- causaturus
- causatus
- causandus
- refuso
- causidicus
- causate
- recuser
- accusatore
- accusabile
- recusator
French (36)
- accusation
- causatif
- causerie
- récusation
- causer
- cause
- chose
- ruser
- ruse
- excuser
- excuse
- causal
- excusable
- causette
- excusablement
- inexcusablement
- monocausal
- récuser
- refuser
- accusateur
- irrécusable
- récusable
- causeur
- accuser
- causalement
- causativement
- irrécusablement
- monocause
- accusatoire
- autoaccusation
- excusez
- accusataire
- causale
- causative
- causa
- refusé