Words that come from Proto-Germanic “spehōną”

134 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Germanic spehōną — including spy, spying, espionage, spyware, espy, spyglass, counterespionage, antispyware.

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English (47)

Serbo-Croatian (10)

Italian (8)

French (6)

Dutch (5)

Portuguese (4)

German (4)

Scots (4)

Middle English (4)

Norman (3)

Czech (2)

Icelandic (2)

Korean (2)

Hungarian (2)

Japanese (2)

Polish (2)

Danish (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Finnish (2)

Galician (2)

Old High German (2)

Vulgar Latin (2)

Middle High German (2)

Frankish (1)

Slovak (1)

Breton (1)

Swedish (1)

Russian (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Middle French (1)

Old Norse (1)

Old French (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Spanish (1)

Gothic (1)

Latin (1)