Words that come from Proto-Germanic

237 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Germanic — including mad, playful, madman, playfully, Herzegovina, playfulness, madhouse, madwoman.

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English (38)

German (27)

Hungarian (22)

Old English (15)

Dutch (10)

Old High German (10)

Middle English (10)

Latvian (9)

Old Saxon (9)

Proto-West Germanic (9)

Proto-Germanic (7)

Swedish (6)

Middle Dutch (5)

Icelandic (5)

Gothic (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Old Norse (5)

Middle High German (5)

Old Dutch (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Luxembourgish (3)

Russian (3)

Vilamovian (2)

Danish (2)

Faroese (2)

Ido (2)

Yiddish (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Middle Low German (2)

Japanese (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Georgian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Estonian (1)

Finnish (1)

Afrikaans (1)