Words that come from Proto-Germanic -īnaz

400 words across 50 languages descend from Proto-Germanic -īnaz — including will, willing, gun, willingness, unwilling, Edith, unwillingness, gunpowder.

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English (153)

Swedish (38)

Middle English (25)

Old English (21)

Proto-Germanic (20)

German (12)

Old Norse (11)

Dutch (9)

Danish (9)

Old High German (8)

Irish (7)

Faroese (6)

Norwegian (5)

Icelandic (4)

Italian (4)

Latin (4)

Old French (4)

Proto-West Germanic (4)

Middle High German (4)

Old Dutch (3)

Latvian (3)

Manx (3)

Frankish (3)

Medieval Latin (3)

Middle Irish (2)

Japanese (2)

French (2)

Gothic (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Proto-Norse (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Finnish (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Germanic (2)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Estonian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Slovak (1)

Translingual (1)

Yiddish (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Scots (1)

Portuguese (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Danish (1)

Welsh (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)

Catalan (1)