Words that come from Proto-Germanic bijǭ

400 words across 51 languages descend from Proto-Germanic bijǭ — including be, are, been, r, Ben, ere, bin, bees.

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English (111)

Swedish (38)

Norwegian Bokmål (29)

Norwegian Nynorsk (22)

German (19)

Finnish (19)

Icelandic (17)

Danish (17)

Faroese (12)

Middle English (12)

Korean (8)

Cebuano (7)

Old English (7)

Urdu (6)

French (5)

Chinese (5)

Serbo-Croatian (5)

Scots (4)

Hindi (4)

Volapük (3)

Persian (3)

Tajik (3)

Old Norse (3)

Tok Pisin (3)

Proto-Germanic (3)

Welsh (2)

Czech (2)

Italian (2)

Japanese (2)

Manx (2)

Thai (2)

Spanish (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Romanian (2)

Afrikaans (1)

Dutch (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Irish (1)

Hebrew (1)

Catalan (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

Portuguese (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Classical Persian (1)

Kazakh (1)

Bengali (1)

Malay (1)

Old Danish (1)

Punjabi (1)