Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “átta”

263 words across 70 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European átta — including Alice, Albert, Ethel, Adelaide, Alberta, Alicia, Adolf, Heidi.

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English (39)

German (29)

Icelandic (23)

Irish (12)

Dutch (11)

Chinese (8)

Cebuano (7)

French (7)

Italian (6)

Serbo-Croatian (6)

Proto-Germanic (6)

Finnish (6)

Czech (5)

Slovak (5)

Latin (5)

Middle English (5)

Old High German (4)

Translingual (4)

Middle Dutch (4)

Swedish (3)

Albanian (3)

Latvian (3)

Old English (3)

Portuguese (3)

Old Dutch (3)

Danish (2)

Russian (2)

Polish (2)

Gothic (2)

Old Church Slavonic (2)

Old French (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Middle High German (2)

Bulgarian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Old Irish (1)

Esperanto (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Old East Slavic (1)

Old Novgorodian (1)

Old Polish (1)

Slovene (1)

Hittite (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Kashubian (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Manx (1)

West Frisian (1)

North Frisian (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Yiddish (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Japanese (1)

Estonian (1)

Norwegian (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Belarusian (1)

Spanish (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Scots (1)

Alemannic German (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Tagalog (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Old Norse (1)