Words that come from Proto-Germanic aiwaz

400 words across 51 languages descend from Proto-Germanic aiwaz — including not, no, nor, neither, nobody, nowhere, Eric, ne.

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English (80)

German (71)

Dutch (34)

Old English (29)

Middle English (18)

Norwegian Bokmål (13)

Swedish (11)

Italian (11)

Middle Dutch (10)

Old High German (10)

Old Saxon (9)

Norwegian Nynorsk (8)

Scots (8)

Old Dutch (7)

Luxembourgish (5)

Icelandic (5)

Danish (5)

Yiddish (5)

Old Norse (4)

Proto-Germanic (4)

German Low German (3)

Central Franconian (3)

Afrikaans (3)

Gothic (3)

Russian (3)

Alemannic German (3)

Middle High German (3)

Translingual (2)

Vilamovian (2)

Estonian (2)

Japanese (2)

Vietnamese (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Pennsylvania German (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Westrobothnian (1)

Faroese (1)

Novial (1)

Irish (1)

Greek (1)

Hausa (1)

Chinese (1)

French (1)

Romanian (1)

Pitcairn-Norfolk (1)

Finnish (1)

Limburgish (1)

Persian (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Old Danish (1)