Words that come from Proto-Germanic “kakǭ”

264 words across 49 languages descend from Proto-Germanic kakǭ — including cheek, cheeks, cake, cakes, choking, choke, pancake, cheeky.

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English (105)

Finnish (33)

Norwegian Bokmål (14)

Swedish (10)

Norwegian Nynorsk (10)

Danish (7)

Middle English (7)

Japanese (6)

Faroese (6)

Spanish (6)

Old English (6)

Dutch (3)

French (3)

Korean (3)

Russian (3)

German (3)

Portuguese (3)

Hungarian (2)

Catalan (2)

Nauruan (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Fiji Hindi (1)

Turkish (1)

Italian (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Fijian (1)

Maori (1)

Arabic (1)

Hebrew (1)

Lao (1)

Chinese (1)

Zulu (1)

Burmese (1)

Tagalog (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Albanian (1)

Hijazi Arabic (1)

Old Norse (1)

Thai (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Khmer (1)

Swahili (1)

Taos (1)

Cebuano (1)

Indonesian (1)

Old Danish (1)

Old Dutch (1)