Words that come from Old English wesan

250 words across 22 languages descend from Old English wesan — including be, by, are, were, been, am, art, r.

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English (181)

Middle English (14)

Italian (7)

Esperanto (7)

Old English (6)

Scots (6)

Japanese (5)

French (4)

Russian (3)

Ido (3)

Tok Pisin (3)

Faroese (1)

Icelandic (1)

Tagalog (1)

Turkish (1)

Egyptian Arabic (1)

North Levantine Arabic (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Chinese (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

Pennsylvania German (1)

Portuguese (1)