weyh₁-tó-
“pursued, hunted”Widely acceptedlifevitality
Source of Latin vīta, English vital, vitamin, vivid
Participial form yielding Latin vīta (life) and English vital, vitamin, vivid, survive, revive.
Related Roots
bʰew-“to be, to grow, to become”ǵenh₁-“to beget, to produce, to be born”ǵenh₁-eyo-“to keep generating, producing”ǵenh₁-mn̥-₂“seed, germ, offspring”ǵenh₁-sko-“to come into being, begin to be born”ǵenh₁-tḱo-“relating to birth, of a kind”ǵenH-tl-“means of producing, birth instrument”gʷey-“to live, to sustain life”