Words that come from Proto-Germanic “spadô”

68 words across 28 languages descend from Proto-Germanic spadô — including paddle, spade, paddling, paddler, spadeful, spadework, paddlefish, paddleboat.

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English (30)

Dutch (3)

Old English (3)

Middle English (3)

Ido (2)

Icelandic (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

German (2)

Middle Low German (2)

Old Frisian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Japanese (1)

Fiji Hindi (1)

Irish (1)

Faroese (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Korean (1)

German Low German (1)

Swedish (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Old Norse (1)

Cebuano (1)

Medieval Latin (1)