Words that come from Proto-Germanic trewwō

400 words across 44 languages descend from Proto-Germanic trewwō — including true, tree, truce, plum, plume, Maple, treebeard, treeless.

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English (202)

Old English (29)

Middle English (24)

Swedish (21)

German (21)

Danish (18)

Icelandic (13)

Norwegian Nynorsk (9)

Bislama (8)

Norwegian Bokmål (5)

Dutch (4)

Italian (3)

Faroese (3)

Old Swedish (2)

Japanese (2)

Chinese (2)

Old French (2)

Spanish (2)

Pennsylvania German (2)

Scots (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Cornish (2)

Samoan Plantation Pidgin (1)

Irish (1)

Gothic (1)

Old High German (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

French (1)

Frankish (1)

Yola (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Estonian (1)

Old Norse (1)

Thai (1)

Torres Strait Creole (1)

Galician (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Middle High German (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Old Danish (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Jamaican Creole (1)