Words that come from Proto-Germanic “ek”

185 words across 71 languages descend from Proto-Germanic ek — including I, me, ich, methinks, mee, I'm, meself, I'll.

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English (26)

Bislama (11)

German (9)

Middle English (9)

Old English (7)

Italian (5)

Old Saxon (5)

Tok Pisin (4)

Middle Low German (3)

Old Frisian (3)

Middle High German (3)

Danish (3)

Old High German (3)

Luxembourgish (3)

Esperanto (3)

Low German (3)

Swedish (3)

Haitian Creole (3)

Pijin (3)

Old Norse (3)

Mauritian Creole (3)

Scots (3)

Dutch (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Old Dutch (2)

West Frisian (2)

French (2)

Icelandic (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Japanese (2)

Yola (2)

Hunsrik (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Alemannic German (2)

Limburgish (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Torres Strait Creole (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Nigerian Pidgin (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Gutnish (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Polish (1)

Yiddish (1)

Korean (1)

Gothic (1)

Russian (1)

Jersey Dutch (1)

Chinese (1)

Old Danish (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Central Franconian (1)

German Low German (1)

North Frisian (1)

Elfdalian (1)

Faroese (1)

Norn (1)

Translingual (1)

Pennsylvania German (1)

Proto-Norse (1)

Spanish (1)

Finnish (1)

Portuguese (1)

Romanian (1)

Ido (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Jamaican Creole (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)