Words that come from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰeysd-

140 words across 28 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰeysd- — including ghost, ghostlike, zeitgeist, poltergeist, ghosting, ghostwriter, ghostwritten, geist.

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English (46)

Dutch (23)

German (23)

Old English (7)

Middle English (4)

Old Frisian (3)

Luxembourgish (3)

Danish (3)

Saterland Frisian (3)

Yiddish (2)

Japanese (2)

Portuguese (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Old Dutch (2)

West Frisian (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Old High German (1)

Russian (1)

Korean (1)

Chinese (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Middle High German (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰeysd- — 140 descendants | Etymology Explorer