Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*peh₂w-
8 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-, most common first.
- fewAn indefinite, but usually small, number of.
- poorWith no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- reposeTo lay (someone, or part of their body) down to rest.
- Mayhem ParvaThe genre of detective fiction in which violent crimes occur in sleepy English villages.
- paucalCharacterized by having a small number, greater than two, of (usually equivalent) components.
- pauci-Having or involving few.
- puellineSynonym of puellile (“characteristic of, or pertaining to, a girl or girls”).
- puttoA representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub.