Words that come from Proto-Germanic hwītaz

400 words across 52 languages descend from Proto-Germanic hwītaz — including white, White, wheat, whiteness, Whitehead, whitewashed, Whitby, nonwhite.

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English (165)

Swedish (34)

German (18)

Dutch (17)

Norwegian Bokmål (15)

Icelandic (14)

Middle English (11)

Old English (9)

Danish (8)

Faroese (7)

Norwegian Nynorsk (7)

Tok Pisin (6)

Finnish (5)

Middle High German (5)

Old High German (4)

Afrikaans (4)

Middle Dutch (4)

Old Dutch (4)

Old Frisian (4)

Luxembourgish (4)

Old Norse (4)

West Frisian (3)

Westrobothnian (3)

Vilamovian (3)

Old Danish (3)

Old Saxon (3)

Saterland Frisian (3)

Proto-Germanic (3)

German Low German (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Yiddish (2)

Cebuano (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Plautdietsch (2)

Elfdalian (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Albanian (1)

Japanese (1)

Russian (1)

Chuukese (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Translingual (1)

Gothic (1)

North Frisian (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Alemannic German (1)

Limburgish (1)

Bavarian (1)

Chinese (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Indonesian (1)

Yola (1)