Words that come from Middle Persian -yk'

400 words across 51 languages descend from Middle Persian -yk' — including bed, bedroom, embedded, Xavier, embedding, bedrock, Indochina, Khomeini.

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English (186)

Persian (55)

Dutch (25)

French (14)

Finnish (14)

Turkish (10)

Urdu (8)

German (6)

Russian (4)

Georgian (4)

Yiddish (4)

Basque (4)

Polish (4)

Hindi (4)

Old English (4)

Old Frisian (3)

Hungarian (3)

Bashkir (3)

Gujarati (3)

North Frisian (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Esperanto (2)

Estonian (2)

Catalan (2)

Chinese (2)

Telugu (2)

Cebuano (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Danish (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Chuukese (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Japanese (1)

Italian (1)

Santali (1)

Arabic (1)

Moksha (1)

Armenian (1)

German Low German (1)

Hausa (1)

Zulu (1)

Korean (1)

Tagalog (1)

Yagnobi (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Volapük (1)

Mohegan-Pequot (1)

Tajik (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

Words from Middle Persian -yk' — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer