Words that come from Proto-Hellenic “hékʰō”

400 words across 53 languages descend from Proto-Hellenic hékʰō — including scheme, sketch, epoch, schema, Hector, Scheme, turtle, schematic.

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English (111)

Ancient Greek (66)

Greek (26)

Latin (20)

Italian (17)

Dutch (16)

French (15)

Serbo-Croatian (14)

German (11)

Spanish (9)

Esperanto (8)

Portuguese (7)

Translingual (6)

Swedish (6)

Catalan (4)

Russian (4)

Romanian (4)

Middle English (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Medieval Latin (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Polish (3)

Aramaic (2)

Tagalog (2)

Middle French (2)

Scottish Gaelic (2)

Finnish (2)

Old Occitan (2)

Late Latin (2)

Slovak (1)

Old Irish (1)

Mycenaean Greek (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Irish (1)

Danish (1)

Icelandic (1)

Hebrew (1)

Japanese (1)

Mi'kmaq (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Czech (1)

Hungarian (1)

Galician (1)

Norman (1)

Old French (1)

Torres Strait Creole (1)

Asturian (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Old Catalan (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Koine Greek (1)

Ido (1)

Ukrainian (1)