Words that come from Proto-Germanic “wai”

141 words across 38 languages descend from Proto-Germanic wai — including woe, wo, wailing, wail, homesick, homesickness, Heimweh, wailful.

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English (22)

German (22)

Italian (10)

Dutch (8)

Old English (6)

Middle English (6)

Icelandic (5)

Esperanto (4)

Swedish (4)

Gothic (4)

Finnish (4)

Old High German (4)

Middle High German (4)

Danish (3)

Yiddish (3)

Old Norse (3)

Old French (3)

Old Dutch (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Scots (2)

Spanish (2)

Ido (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Frankish (1)

Polish (1)

Hungarian (1)

Portuguese (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Istriot (1)

Asturian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Japanese (1)