The Origins of Supply

Supply, surplus and a dozen other words that you know trace their origin to the Proto-Indo-European root pele, meaning to fill. Surplus comes from a combination of two Latin terms, super, meaning over, and plus, meaning more. Anything that goes after poly, that poly also originates in the Proto-indo-EuropeanRoot to fill. Also terms like replenish, replete, even hoy-poloi,. If you know that one, and get this, the Latin version, plebeian. Plenitude. Plethora. Plural. Polyseemus. Polyamorous.