Words that come from Proto-Hellenic ehmi

400 words across 53 languages descend from Proto-Hellenic ehmi — including interest, essential, interesting, essentially, essence, ontology, ontological, disinterested.

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English (104)

Spanish (24)

Ancient Greek (21)

Galician (20)

Portuguese (20)

German (20)

Swedish (18)

French (16)

Russian (14)

Italian (13)

Polish (12)

Irish (10)

Romanian (10)

Latin (9)

Finnish (8)

Greek (7)

Danish (6)

Catalan (6)

Dutch (5)

Vietnamese (5)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Maltese (3)

Georgian (3)

Late Latin (3)

Esperanto (2)

Ido (2)

Scottish Gaelic (2)

Old French (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Khmer (2)

New Latin (2)

Romagnol (1)

Slovak (1)

Low German (1)

Hiligaynon (1)

Tagalog (1)

Turkish (1)

Yiddish (1)

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Wolof (1)

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Old Irish (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

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Vulgar Latin (1)

Latvian (1)

Church Slavonic (1)

Old Armenian (1)

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