Words that come from Proto-Hellenic “lāwós”

225 words across 49 languages descend from Proto-Hellenic lāwós — including Nicholas, Nietzsche, Coll, liturgy, Nicholson, laity, Nicola, Colson.

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English (39)

Icelandic (21)

Faroese (12)

German (12)

Norwegian Bokmål (11)

Italian (10)

Danish (9)

Latin (8)

Swedish (8)

Ancient Greek (7)

Greek (6)

Catalan (6)

Portuguese (6)

Finnish (6)

French (5)

Irish (5)

Spanish (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Latvian (3)

Hungarian (3)

Scottish Gaelic (3)

Dutch (2)

Polish (2)

Old Norse (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Old French (2)

Ladino (2)

Ecclesiastical Latin (2)

Late Latin (2)

Middle High German (2)

Middle French (1)

Tagalog (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Turkish (1)

Old Irish (1)

Georgian (1)

Albanian (1)

Esperanto (1)

Translingual (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Estonian (1)

Middle English (1)

Coptic (1)

Romanian (1)

Norman (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Old High German (1)