Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*wel-
13 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *wel-, most common first.
- wallA rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- wealthRiches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
- 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.
- litTo run or light (alight).
- weltTo roll; revolve.
- waldTo govern; inherit.
- gallopThe fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
- woldAn unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
- litmusA dyestuff extracted from certain lichens, that changes color when exposed to pH levels greater than or less than certain critical levels.
- laitTo seek; search for; inquire.
- wallopA heavy blow, a punch.
- wealdA forest or wood.
- VöluspáThe Prophecy of the Vǫlva; the first poem of the Poetic Edda.