Words that come from Proto-Germanic hwītaz

383 words across 47 languages descend from Proto-Germanic hwītaz — including white, White, wheat, whites, Whitehead, whitewashed, Wheatley, bismuth.

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English (173)

German (49)

Dutch (24)

Swedish (12)

Icelandic (12)

Norwegian Bokmål (12)

Danish (7)

Faroese (6)

Norwegian Nynorsk (6)

Middle High German (6)

Yiddish (5)

Old English (5)

Middle English (5)

Old High German (4)

Old Frisian (4)

Luxembourgish (4)

Westrobothnian (3)

Middle Dutch (3)

Old Dutch (3)

Tok Pisin (3)

West Frisian (2)

German Low German (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Old Norse (2)

Alemannic German (2)

Malay (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Latin (2)

Elfdalian (1)

French (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Russian (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Japanese (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Chuukese (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Translingual (1)

Gothic (1)

North Frisian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Bavarian (1)

Spanish (1)

Old Danish (1)