Words that come from Proto-Germanic wesaną

400 words across 49 languages descend from Proto-Germanic wesaną — including was, be, by, are, were, been, am, art.

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English (220)

Icelandic (17)

Swedish (17)

Dutch (12)

Norwegian Bokmål (12)

Danish (11)

Old English (8)

Norwegian Nynorsk (8)

German (8)

Italian (7)

Esperanto (7)

Japanese (6)

French (5)

Middle English (5)

Old Norse (4)

Russian (3)

Faroese (3)

Afrikaans (3)

Middle Dutch (3)

Ido (3)

North Frisian (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Gothic (2)

Elfdalian (2)

Cimbrian (2)

Mauritian Creole (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Scots (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Frankish (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Old High German (1)

Tagalog (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Turkish (1)

West Frisian (1)

Egyptian Arabic (1)

Yiddish (1)

Middle Low German (1)

North Levantine Arabic (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Chinese (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Alemannic German (1)

Old French (1)

German Low German (1)