Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*ǵénh₁tis
4 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis, most common first.
- gauntAngular, bony, and lean.
- biogenesisThe principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms.
- gensA legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium.
- abiogenesisThe origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents.