Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*skend-
8 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *skend-, most common first.
- scanTo examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
- descendTo pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
- ascendantMoving upward; ascending, rising.
- echelonA level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.
- transcendentalSynonym of transcendent (“surpassing usual limits; excelling; extraordinary”).
- scandalousOf a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal; regarded as so immoral or wrong as to be extremely disgraceful; despicable, shameful.
- skeinA quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
- condescendTo come down or go down; to descend.