Words that come from Indo-European *weyd-

400 words across 31 languages descend from Indo-European *weyd- — including death, history, story, week, weeks, historical, witness, historic.

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English (324)

French (8)

Dutch (7)

Czech (7)

Irish (6)

Ancient Greek (5)

Italian (5)

Russian (5)

Danish (4)

Latin (3)

Hungarian (3)

Polish (2)

Faroese (2)

Armenian (2)

Luxembourgish (1)

Asturian (1)

Basque (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Old Italian (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Swedish (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Greek (1)

Catalan (1)

Extremaduran (1)

Old Irish (1)

Friulian (1)

Slovak (1)

Macedonian (1)

Slovene (1)

Japanese (1)