Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*ḱewb-
7 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-, most common first.
- hipThe outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- coveA hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
- incumbentChiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else.
- coveyA brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).
- cubicularBelonging or relating to a bedchamber or bedroom.
- decubationThe act of lying down.
- librocubicularistA person who reads in bed.