Words that come from Indo-European *wel-

400 words across 47 languages descend from Indo-European *wel- — including walk, walking, lit, Walker, sidewalk, waltz, walker, moonlit.

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English (185)

Icelandic (21)

Finnish (20)

Norwegian Nynorsk (16)

Middle English (14)

Albanian (13)

Old English (12)

Irish (9)

German (9)

Old Norse (9)

Norwegian Bokmål (8)

Faroese (7)

French (6)

Manx (5)

Swedish (5)

Proto-Germanic (5)

Danish (4)

Italian (4)

Gothic (4)

Portuguese (4)

Russian (3)

Romanian (3)

Proto-West Germanic (3)

Cebuano (2)

Korean (2)

Westrobothnian (2)

Galician (2)

Spanish (2)

Old Irish (2)

Polish (2)

Frankish (1)

Dutch (1)

Armenian (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Japanese (1)

Hungarian (1)

Catalan (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Esperanto (1)

Norman (1)

Scots (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Old High German (1)

Middle High German (1)

Breton (1)

Old Danish (1)