Words that come from Indo-European *ser-

400 words across 26 languages descend from Indo-European *ser- — including service, sort, serve, observation, servant, observe, server, serving.

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English (283)

Latin (37)

French (29)

Italian (11)

Middle French (6)

Catalan (6)

Dutch (4)

Danish (2)

Swedish (2)

Asturian (2)

Hungarian (2)

Esperanto (2)

Sanskrit (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Albanian (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Estonian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Venetian (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Old Irish (1)

Ido (1)

Hausa (1)

Interlingua (1)

Irish (1)