Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*bʰer-
17 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-, most common first.
- offerA proposal that has been made.
- burdenA heavy load.
- sufferTo undergo hardship.
- barrelA round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- boreTo inspire boredom in somebody.
- baronThe male ruler of a barony.
- barmbosom
- bierA litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
- fortuitousHappening by fortune or chance; accidental, coincidental.
- bordelloA brothel.
- furtiveOf a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
- profferAn offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
- insufferableNot sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable.
- burnishTo make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
- burgeonA bud, sprout, or shoot.
- abearTo put up with; to endure; to bear.
- sufferableAble to suffer, endure, or tolerate.