Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “per-nóy”
101 words across 12 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European per-nóy — including far, fear, feared, fearing, afar, fearless, fern, furthest.
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English (68)
- far
- fear
- feared
- fearing
- afar
- fearless
- fern
- furthest
- fearlessly
- faraway
- fearsome
- fearlessness
- farreaching
- farsighted
- ferny
- farseeing
- furthermost
- farsightedness
- fearest
- fearsomely
- fernery
- farsight
- fernlike
- fearsomeness
- unfearing
- fearer
- unfeared
- ferning
- farsightedly
- fearingly
- fernroot
- farseer
- overfar
- fearmonger
- farmost
- fearnaught
- farstretched
- woodfern
- farforth
- fernowl
- unfearingly
- technofear
- antifear
- fernland
- unfear
- farsee
- fernbird
- overfear
- fearlike
- hardfern
- far-flung
- far right
- far-right
- Christmas fern
- fierljeppen
- farspeak
- farfetch
- fearscape
- fearable
- fearedness
- far-rightist
- ferndom
- height-fear
- spider-fear
- germ-fear
- fernless
- microfear
- nonfern