Words that come from Proto-Germanic būwijaną

273 words across 40 languages descend from Proto-Germanic būwijaną — including big, bigger, biggest, beep, bigness, Bigfoot, bighorn, beeper.

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English (62)

Swedish (39)

Norwegian Bokmål (38)

Danish (30)

Norwegian Nynorsk (13)

Tok Pisin (12)

Thai (8)

Icelandic (5)

Faroese (4)

Dutch (4)

French (4)

Finnish (4)

Portuguese (4)

Japanese (3)

Spanish (3)

Old Norse (3)

Middle English (3)

Romanian (3)

Hungarian (2)

Italian (2)

Chinese (2)

Russian (2)

Korean (2)

Scots (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Polish (2)

Jamaican Creole (2)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Hebrew (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Elfdalian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

German (1)

Malay (1)

Torres Strait Creole (1)

Pijin (1)

Old Danish (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Words from Proto-Germanic būwijaną — 273 descendants | Etymology Explorer