Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*h₂welh₁-
10 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁-, most common first.
- valueThe quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
- validWell-grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
- wildEspecially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- VladimirA transliteration of the Bulgarian, Macedonian, Pannonian Rusyn, Russian, or Serbo-Croatian male given name Владимир (Vladimir), equivalent to Volodymyr, popular throughout the history of Slavic countries and societies.
- valiantPossessing or showing courage or determination; brave, heroic.
- cuckoldA man married to an adulterous spouse, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
- valenceThe combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc.
- valencyThe capacity of something to combine with other things, as for example the capability of a vaccine as measured by the number of pathogen serotypes that it can counteract.
- valedictoryOf or pertaining to a valediction (“an act of parting company; a speech made when parting company”); designed for or suitable to an occasion of bidding farewell or parting company.
- quantivalenceSynonym of valence (“the combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc.”).