Words that come from Proto-Germanic “surgō”

110 words across 30 languages descend from Proto-Germanic surgō — including sorrow, sorrowless, sorroweth, sorrower, sorrowest, oversorrow, zorg, sorg.

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German (18)

Esperanto (11)

English (10)

Dutch (10)

Norwegian Bokmål (6)

Old English (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Middle Dutch (4)

Icelandic (3)

Swedish (3)

Old Dutch (3)

Luxembourgish (3)

Finnish (3)

Faroese (2)

Yiddish (2)

Ido (2)

Danish (2)

Old Norse (2)

Middle English (2)

Saterland Frisian (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Old High German (2)

Afrikaans (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Gothic (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Middle High German (1)