Words that come from Proto-Germanic wrōts

400 words across 32 languages descend from Proto-Germanic wrōts — including root, rat, rotten, rot, rote, wort, uproot, rottenness.

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English (287)

German (16)

Swedish (10)

Norwegian Bokmål (9)

Middle English (9)

Dutch (8)

Faroese (8)

Norwegian Nynorsk (7)

Old English (6)

Finnish (6)

Icelandic (4)

Danish (4)

Proto-Germanic (4)

Volapük (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Old Norse (2)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Indonesian (1)

Old Frisian (1)

West Frisian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old High German (1)

Yiddish (1)

Gothic (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Portuguese (1)

Torres Strait Creole (1)

Hindi (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)