Words that come from Frankish wadi

199 words across 45 languages descend from Frankish wadi — including engage, engagement, wedding, mortgage, wed, mortgagee, disengagement, gage.

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English (80)

French (12)

Romanian (9)

Italian (8)

Polish (8)

Dutch (7)

Old French (6)

Middle English (6)

German (5)

Serbo-Croatian (5)

Latin (4)

Indonesian (4)

Esperanto (3)

Old English (3)

Norman (3)

Middle French (2)

Frankish (2)

Malay (2)

Catalan (2)

Portuguese (2)

Danish (2)

Luxembourgish (1)

Czech (1)

Hungarian (1)

Javanese (1)

Low German (1)

Macedonian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Ledo Kaili (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Middle High German (1)

Old High German (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Turkish (1)

Swedish (1)

Spanish (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Plautdietsch (1)

Yola (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Mongolian (1)

Japanese (1)