Words that come from Proto-Germanic waldą

400 words across 46 languages descend from Proto-Germanic waldą — including wild, Arnold, Harold, Ronald, Reynolds, Gerald, wildlife, Fitzgerald.

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Finnish (186)

English (77)

German (12)

Icelandic (10)

Norwegian Bokmål (10)

Swedish (9)

Estonian (9)

Middle English (9)

French (5)

Proto-Germanic (5)

Faroese (4)

Old English (4)

Old French (4)

Frankish (3)

Cebuano (3)

Danish (3)

Veps (3)

Ido (3)

Irish (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Old Norse (3)

Old Danish (2)

Norwegian (2)

Dutch (2)

Latvian (2)

Tagalog (2)

Pennsylvania German (2)

Anglo-Norman (2)

Proto-Finnic (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Polish (1)

Armenian (1)

Manx (1)

Italian (1)

Chinese (1)

Yiddish (1)

Esperanto (1)

Russian (1)

Czech (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Ludian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Middle High German (1)

Old High German (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Latin (1)