Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “weǵ-”
400 words across 47 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European weǵ- — including waiting, watch, wait, watching, wake, vigorous, vegetable, vegetation.
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English (198)
- waiting
- watch
- wait
- watching
- wake
- vigorous
- vegetable
- vegetation
- woke
- surveillance
- waking
- vigorously
- vigour
- vigilance
- vigilant
- vegetarian
- vigil
- woken
- wakefulness
- waken
- wakeful
- watchword
- watchdog
- vigilante
- vegetarianism
- wristwatch
- watchmaker
- vegetal
- stopwatch
- reveille
- vigilantly
- watchtower
- vegetate
- vigilantism
- wakeup
- vajra
- birdwatching
- hypervigilance
- waitstaff
- Vegetius
- revegetation
- vegetational
- hypervigilant
- watchmaking
- watcheth
- waitlist
- overwatch
- watchlist
- waketh
- pharmacovigilance
- watchchain
- waker
- deathwatch
- watchable
- immunosurveillance
- nonvegetarian
- watchband
- watchhouse
- countersurveillance
- wakefully
- waitest
- subwaking
- wakey
- invigilator
- watchfire
- wakest
- watchest
- biosurveillance
- dogwatch
- unwatchable
- outwait
- sousveillance
- watchcase
- wakeneth
- wakefield
- vigorousness
- revegetate
- weck
- watcht
- watchspring
- outwatch
- watchkeeping
- peoplewatching
- watchpoint
- watchnight
- vigilancy
- invigilate
- waitee
- paleovegetation
- veggo
- watchstrap
- birdwatch
- lactovegetarian
- watchmate
- unwaking
- wakeboard
- rewatch
- watchkeeper
- vigia
- wakeless
- haemovigilance
- vegete
- watchstander
- wakener
- overvigorous
- antisurveillance
- vigilate
- waitingly
- semivegetarian
- serosurveillance
- watchclock
- watchwoman
- wakingly
- watchlike
- watchless
- sleepwaking
- wakenest
- watchbox
- sleepwaker
- rewaken
- wafter
- nonvegetable
- waitable
- vegetally
- vegetably
- vigilanteism
- palaeovegetation
- wakerobin
- waketime
- veleta
- awatch
- unvigorous
- watchstanding
- unwatch
- antivegetarian
- unwakeable
- cybersurveillance
- microvegetation
- girlwatching
- unwakeful
- wacken
- wakeboarder
- moonwake
- watchingly
- vigilantist
- skywatch
- vegetized
- vigourless
- unwatchably
- nonwaiting
- vegetous
- invigilance
- rewake
- vegetality
- vigoured
- unwoken
- antivigilante
- oversurveillance
- paleovegetational
- watchcat
- vegetaline
- unvigorously
- palaeovegetational
- wake up
- demi-vegetarian
- watch out
- re-surveillance
- toxicovigilance
- doomwatch
- wakeable
- rewatchable
- semivegetarianism
- multivegetable
- vegetize
- vigilantelike
- watchphone
- hemovigilance
- vigily
- geosurveillance
- cybervigilantism
- pervigilation
- dorveille
- overwait
- waithood
- vigourlessness
- wakeskating
- bewatch
- smartwatch
- wakeskate
- vegetablization
- pharmacovigilant
- vegephobia
- cybervigilante
- wakesome
- watchpuppy
- binge-watch
- binge-watcher
- binge-watchable