Words that come from Proto-Germanic “rōaną”

68 words across 22 languages descend from Proto-Germanic rōaną — including rudder, rudderless, rown, rother, ruddered, rudderpost, rudderhead, rudderfish.

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English (13)

Dutch (8)

Middle English (7)

Swedish (5)

Old English (5)

Faroese (3)

Russian (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Icelandic (2)

Old Dutch (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Old Norse (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Old High German (2)

Danish (1)

Yiddish (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Old Saxon (1)

German (1)

Middle Low German (1)