Words that come from Proto-Germanic “spadō”

57 words across 20 languages descend from Proto-Germanic spadō — including paddle, spade, paddling, paddler, spadeful, spadework, paddlefish, paddleboat.

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English (30)

Old English (3)

Middle English (3)

Ido (2)

Icelandic (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

German (2)

Japanese (1)

Fiji Hindi (1)

Irish (1)

Dutch (1)

Faroese (1)

Korean (1)

Swedish (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Old Norse (1)

Cebuano (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Middle Low German (1)