Words that come from Proto-Germanic mōdēr

400 words across 49 languages descend from Proto-Germanic mōdēr — including mother, mug, godmother, motherless, motherland, motherboard, motherfucker, muggy.

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English (91)

Dutch (55)

Swedish (38)

German (36)

Norwegian Nynorsk (29)

Norwegian Bokmål (25)

Finnish (20)

Danish (14)

Icelandic (13)

Middle English (9)

Faroese (5)

Afrikaans (5)

Yiddish (5)

Old English (5)

Scots (5)

Chinese (3)

Welsh (3)

Old High German (2)

Estonian (2)

Polish (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Central Franconian (2)

Limburgish (2)

Bavarian (2)

French (1)

Hebrew (1)

Hunsrik (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Irish (1)

Japanese (1)

Norwegian (1)

Georgian (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Italian (1)

Livonian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Old Norse (1)

Kriol (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Bengali (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Middle High German (1)

Alemannic German (1)

Breton (1)

Tagalog (1)