Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “werǵʰ-”
280 words across 50 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European werǵʰ- — including wrong, wear, wearing, worry, worn, urge, urgent, urgency.
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English (119)
- wrong
- wear
- wearing
- worry
- worn
- urge
- urgent
- urgency
- worrying
- wrongly
- urgently
- underwear
- wrongful
- wrongdoing
- wring
- wrongfully
- worrisome
- wearable
- careworn
- wrongdoer
- outworn
- wrongheaded
- wrongfulness
- worryingly
- worrier
- unworn
- timeworn
- wayworn
- urgence
- microwear
- shopworn
- weatherworn
- weareth
- wearest
- worrit
- worriment
- waterworn
- wrongheadedness
- wearout
- overworn
- usewear
- outwear
- wronger
- nonurgent
- antiwear
- toilworn
- wrongest
- unwearable
- wearability
- urgeth
- warworn
- urger
- worrisomely
- travelworn
- workworn
- urgest
- footworn
- seaworn
- overwear
- wrongheadedly
- treadwear
- awrong
- wrongfoot
- warg
- wornness
- wringeth
- babywearing
- nonwearable
- wearingly
- wrongminded
- worryment
- unworrying
- reurge
- wronghead
- worryless
- roadworn
- worrisomeness
- underwearless
- wringest
- bodyworn
- worrieth
- unurgent
- urgicenter
- underweared
- alwrong
- inworn
- wrongish
- wearproof
- wrongless
- nonurgency
- netherwear
- edgewear
- overurge
- beworry
- wrength
- worryguts
- wrong-headedly
- unwearably
- worrily
- unworryingly
- miswear
- wither-wrung
- wringable
- unurgency
- hard-wearing
- wrongsome
- wrongtake
- wrong-minded
- wrongmindedness
- wrong-mindedness
- wrongmindedly
- wrong-mindedly
- dirtybadwrong
- wringbolt
- worry-free
- underwearlessness
- unwrong
- wargus
- wrongdo