Words that come from Old Norse glotta

268 words across 35 languages descend from Old Norse glotta — including glossy, gloss, glossary, gloating, glottis, gloat, polyglot, epiglottis.

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English (116)

Ancient Greek (20)

French (15)

Italian (15)

Latin (12)

Translingual (9)

Irish (9)

Polish (8)

Middle English (6)

Spanish (6)

Romanian (6)

Dutch (5)

Portuguese (5)

German (5)

Greek (4)

Finnish (3)

New Latin (3)

Late Latin (3)

Catalan (2)

Luxembourgish (1)

Tsakonian (1)

Norman (1)

Old English (1)

Italiot Greek (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Old Irish (1)

Middle High German (1)

Swedish (1)

Russian (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Czech (1)

Maltese (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Kazakh (1)

Malayalam (1)