Words that come from Proto-Germanic “grētaną”

97 words across 34 languages descend from Proto-Germanic grētaną — including regret, greeting, greet, regrettable, regretfully, regretful, regrettably, gratin.

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English (27)

French (8)

Old French (5)

Old Norse (4)

Icelandic (3)

Danish (3)

Middle French (3)

Old Saxon (3)

Old English (3)

Middle English (3)

Dutch (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Faroese (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Frankish (2)

Swedish (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Norman (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Esperanto (1)

German Low German (1)

Gothic (1)

West Frisian (1)

German (1)

Scots (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Walloon (1)

Middle High German (1)

Old High German (1)

Middle Low German (1)