*teuə-, also*teu-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to swell." It forms all or part of:butter;contumely;creosote;intumescence;intumescent;protuberance;protuberant;psychosomatic;somato-;-some(3) "body, the body;"soteriology;Tartuffe;thigh;thimble;thousand;thole(n.);thumb;tumescent;tumid;tu...