| 1 | English | transverse | Situated or lying across; side to side, relative... |
| 2 | English | -verse | Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range... |
| 3 | English | Universe | — |
| 4 | Middle English | universe | The universe; the stars |
| 5 | Old French | univers | the whole world; the whole Earth; universal;... |
| 6 | Latin | ūniversum | — |
| 7 | Latin | versus | turned, changed, having been turned; towards,... |
| 8 | Latin | vertō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | wertō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | wert- | to turn, to rotate |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |