Words that come from Ancient Greek λέγειν

254 words across 39 languages descend from Ancient Greek λέγειν — including dialogue, dialog, dialect, lexical, dialectic, dialectical, lex, dialectics.

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English (131)

Italian (16)

Ancient Greek (15)

French (13)

Latin (11)

Romanian (5)

Portuguese (5)

Greek (4)

Dutch (4)

Spanish (4)

Catalan (3)

Georgian (3)

German (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Old French (3)

Danish (2)

Hungarian (2)

Polish (2)

Norman (2)

Late Latin (2)

Middle French (1)

Swedish (1)

Aramaic (1)

Sicilian (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Maltese (1)

Irish (1)

Russian (1)

Asturian (1)

Turkish (1)

Istriot (1)

Macedonian (1)

Tagalog (1)

Galician (1)

Middle English (1)

New Latin (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Byzantine Greek (1)