Words that come from Proto-Hellenic “wérďō”

96 words across 37 languages descend from Proto-Hellenic wérďō — including orgasm, orgastic, orgasmatron, orgastically, orgasmlike, orgasmless, preorgastic, antiorgastic.

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English (16)

Ancient Greek (7)

French (6)

Italian (6)

Serbo-Croatian (6)

Swedish (4)

Greek (4)

Portuguese (4)

Spanish (4)

Romanian (4)

Galician (3)

Russian (3)

Esperanto (2)

Polish (2)

Japanese (2)

Finnish (2)

Danish (1)

Latin (1)

Turkish (1)

Lithuanian (1)

Slovene (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Korean (1)

Samogitian (1)

Armenian (1)

Basque (1)

Cebuano (1)

Dutch (1)

German (1)

Belarusian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Hindi (1)

New Latin (1)

Byzantine Greek (1)

Indonesian (1)