Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*dʰwes-
2 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, most common first.
- wildernessUncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.
- duskTending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.