Words that come from Proto-Germanic

400 words across 58 languages descend from Proto-Germanic — including born, bear, bearing, borne, beer, newborn, forbearance, unborn.

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English (170)

Finnish (46)

German (32)

Dutch (26)

Swedish (13)

Norwegian Bokmål (8)

Czech (7)

French (6)

Italian (6)

Middle Dutch (4)

Polish (4)

Catalan (4)

Old Dutch (3)

Esperanto (3)

Irish (3)

Old French (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Proto-Germanic (3)

Spanish (3)

Norman (3)

Vietnamese (3)

Volapük (2)

Chinese (2)

Translingual (2)

Faroese (2)

Icelandic (2)

Middle French (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Estonian (2)

Telugu (2)

Burmese (2)

Old High German (1)

Indonesian (1)

Javanese (1)

Japanese (1)

Abenaki (1)

Latin (1)

Hungarian (1)

Slovak (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Slovene (1)

Lao (1)

Alabama (1)

Hausa (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Yiddish (1)

Kashubian (1)

Maori (1)

American Sign Language (1)

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Old Norse (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Middle English (1)

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