Words that come from Proto-Hellenic “dipʰtʰérā”

371 words across 64 languages descend from Proto-Hellenic dipʰtʰérā — including letter, literature, literary, literally, literacy, literal, illiterate, literate.

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English (157)

Italian (17)

Dutch (17)

Portuguese (16)

French (14)

Irish (12)

Spanish (12)

Manx (11)

Latin (10)

Esperanto (8)

Welsh (7)

Catalan (5)

Japanese (5)

Old French (4)

Scottish Gaelic (4)

German (4)

Old Irish (3)

Middle French (3)

Galician (3)

Afrikaans (3)

Polish (3)

Norman (3)

Old Portuguese (3)

Russian (2)

Cornish (2)

Georgian (2)

Ido (2)

Middle English (2)

Tibetan (2)

Ancient Greek (1)

Arabic (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Aramaic (1)

Turkish (1)

Chavacano (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Friulian (1)

Latvian (1)

Albanian (1)

Sicilian (1)

Central Kurdish (1)

Asturian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Hebrew (1)

Greek (1)

Slovak (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Malagasy (1)

Hindi (1)

Persian (1)

Fula (1)

Uyghur (1)

Romansch (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Swahili (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)

Danish (1)

Classical Nahuatl (1)

Late Latin (1)

British English (1)