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

101 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ǵnéwo- — including knees, knee, Genoa, Genoese, kneecap, kneehole, Genoan, kneejoint.

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English (35)

German (10)

Middle English (6)

Icelandic (5)

French (3)

Swedish (3)

Old English (3)

Dutch (2)

Italian (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Finnish (2)

Middle High German (2)

Danish (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Old High German (1)

Faroese (1)

Gothic (1)

Latin (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Yiddish (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Greek (1)

Hungarian (1)

Polish (1)

Portuguese (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Old Norse (1)

Alemannic German (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)