Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*kʷel-
8 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-, most common first.
- cultureThe arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
- colonyA geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area.
- columnistA regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.
- pulleyOne of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).
- cultivateTo grow plants, notably crops.
- teleologyThe study of the design or final purpose of natural occurrences, that is, of such occurrences being the result of intention instead of prior causes.
- palingenesiaRebirth; regeneration.
- palingenesisRebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.