Words that come from Proto-Hellenic hwe

184 words across 37 languages descend from Proto-Hellenic hwe — including Catherine, idiot, idiosyncratic, idiopathic, idiotic, idiomatic, idiocy, idiosyncrasy.

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English (94)

Ancient Greek (13)

Italian (10)

French (8)

Spanish (5)

Portuguese (4)

Latin (3)

German (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Slovak (2)

Swedish (2)

Russian (2)

Danish (2)

Latvian (2)

Polish (2)

Greek (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old French (2)

Middle English (2)

Late Latin (2)

Cebuano (1)

Asturian (1)

Catalan (1)

Hungarian (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Esperanto (1)

Hebrew (1)

Translingual (1)

Irish (1)

Ido (1)

Finnish (1)

Norman (1)

Romanian (1)

Dutch (1)

Byzantine Greek (1)

Medieval Latin (1)