Words that come from Latin “avus”

210 words across 45 languages descend from Latin avus — including Lola, atavistic, ayah, atavism, aval, ael, atavistically, ayle.

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Portuguese (39)

English (18)

Latin (17)

Spanish (15)

Esperanto (12)

Italian (10)

Tagalog (10)

French (8)

Ido (7)

Catalan (6)

Galician (4)

Malay (4)

Hindi (4)

Finnish (4)

Papiamentu (4)

Vulgar Latin (4)

Malayalam (4)

Old French (3)

Polish (3)

Hiligaynon (2)

Translingual (2)

Aromanian (2)

Middle English (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Kabuverdianu (2)

Greek (2)

Gujarati (2)

Friulian (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Indonesian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Swahili (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Old English (1)

Late Latin (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Russian (1)

Urdu (1)

Chavacano (1)

Southeastern Tepehuan (1)

Peranakan Indonesian (1)

Occitan (1)

Kazakh (1)

Telugu (1)

Burmese (1)