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

61 words across 38 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ǵénus — including chin, chinless, chinstrap, gena, chinny, genal, chinwag, chinrest.

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English (13)

Icelandic (3)

German (3)

Dutch (2)

Latin (2)

Yiddish (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Old English (2)

Finnish (2)

Middle Low German (2)

Danish (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Swedish (1)

West Frisian (1)

Old High German (1)

Gaulish (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Telugu (1)

Aromanian (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Welsh (1)

Gothic (1)

Romanian (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Old Norse (1)

Proto-Brythonic (1)

Italian (1)

Middle English (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Middle High German (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European ǵénus — 61 descendants | Etymology Explorer