Words that come from Proto-Germanic wrōts

400 words across 31 languages descend from Proto-Germanic wrōts — including root, routing, rotten, orchard, rot, routed, rotting, rout.

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English (279)

Swedish (21)

German (17)

Danish (12)

Dutch (9)

Faroese (8)

Finnish (8)

Norwegian Bokmål (7)

Old English (7)

Icelandic (6)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Old Norse (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Middle English (2)

Old Swedish (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Indonesian (1)

Old Frisian (1)

West Frisian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old High German (1)

Japanese (1)

Yiddish (1)

Gothic (1)

Irish (1)

French (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Portuguese (1)

Hindi (1)

Old Saxon (1)