Words that come from Proto-Germanic “batiz”

83 words across 23 languages descend from Proto-Germanic batiz — including better, betterment, beater, bettering, eggbeater, bettermost, wifebeater, betterer.

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English (24)

Middle English (7)

Norwegian Bokmål (7)

Old Dutch (5)

Old English (5)

German (5)

Danish (3)

Middle Dutch (3)

Yiddish (3)

Old Saxon (3)

Old High German (2)

Dutch (2)

Swedish (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Middle High German (2)

Faroese (1)

Icelandic (1)

Gothic (1)

Scots (1)

Finnish (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Old Norse (1)