Words that come from Proto-Germanic sehwaną

400 words across 34 languages descend from Proto-Germanic sehwaną — including see, sight, seeing, oversight, hindsight, seer, sighting, unsightly.

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German (78)

English (75)

Norwegian Bokmål (36)

Dutch (32)

Swedish (28)

Norwegian Nynorsk (27)

Danish (24)

Faroese (15)

Icelandic (10)

Old English (10)

Gothic (7)

Old Norse (7)

Luxembourgish (6)

Middle Dutch (5)

Old Swedish (5)

Middle English (4)

Proto-West Germanic (4)

Old Dutch (3)

Old Saxon (3)

Old Frisian (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Yiddish (2)

Middle Low German (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Saterland Frisian (2)

West Frisian (1)

Low German (1)

Old High German (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Elfdalian (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Finnish (1)

Old Danish (1)