| A | B |
| ligare (ligament; allegience; align; ally, oblige) | to bind |
| lign (ligneous; lignite; lingnocellulose) | wood |
| mand (mandatory, remand, mandate) | command |
| monger (warmonger; fishmonger) | seller |
| mund (mundane; transmundane; intermundane) | world |
| myria (myriad; myriapod; myriarch) | many |
| narco (narcolepsy; narcotics) | sleep |
| necro (necrophobia; necropolis; necromancer) | death |
| nesia (Micronesia; Melanesia; Polynesia) | island |
| nihil (nil; annihilate; nihilism) | nothing |
| paleo (paleozoic; paleontology; paleolithic) | old |
| phag (sarcophagus; phagocyte; geophagy) | eat |
| phasia (aphasia; dysphasia) | speech |
| phylo (phylum; subphylum; phylogenesis) | kind or type |
| plasm (plasma; cytoplasm; ectoplasm; endoplasm) | form |
| pleo (pleopod; pleomorphic; pleophagous) | more |
| pli (pliers; supplicant; supplicate; pliant; supple) | bend |
| pond (ponder; imponderable; pound; ponderous) | weight |
| protero (proterandrous; Proterozoic; proteanthous) | early |
| sapro (saprophyte; saprogenic; saprophilous) | rotten |
| sine (sinecure; sine qua non) | without |
| soror (sorority; sororicide) | sister |
| string (stringent; stringy; astringent; stringer) | bind |
| tachy (tachometer; tachycardia; tachygraphy) | quick |
| taxis (taxidermy; taxonomy; syntax) | arrangement |
| troph (atrophy; dystrophy; autotroph) | nourishment |
| tropo (phototropism; heliotrope; tropism) | turn |
| und (undulate; inundate; undulous) | wave |
| vend (venal; vend; vending machine; vendue; vendible) | to sell |
| via (via; viaduct; obvious) | road |
| vic, vicis (vicarious, vicar, vicissitude) | change or substitute |
| vir (virile; virility; virophobia) | man |
| viru (virus; virulent; adenovirus) | poison |
| xylo (xylophone; xyloid; xylophagous; xylotomy) | wood |