Words that come from Proto-Germanic mōdēr

278 words across 40 languages descend from Proto-Germanic mōdēr — including mother, motherhood, mug, motherless, motherland, motherboard, motherfucker, mither.

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English (66)

Dutch (35)

German (26)

Norwegian Bokmål (21)

Swedish (20)

Norwegian Nynorsk (19)

Finnish (15)

Icelandic (10)

Danish (10)

Middle English (7)

Faroese (6)

Yiddish (5)

Scots (5)

Old English (4)

Afrikaans (3)

Luxembourgish (2)

French (1)

Welsh (1)

Hebrew (1)

Old High German (1)

Hunsrik (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Irish (1)

Japanese (1)

Georgian (1)

Chinese (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Old Norse (1)

Limburgish (1)

Kriol (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Bengali (1)

Bavarian (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Middle High German (1)