Words that come from Proto-Indo-European ḱówHwos

274 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ḱówHwos — including cave, cavity, cage, cavern, concave, cavernous, cava, gage.

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English (124)

Latin (27)

Italian (22)

French (11)

Spanish (9)

Esperanto (8)

Romanian (8)

Portuguese (8)

Catalan (5)

Old French (5)

Middle English (5)

Ido (4)

Dutch (3)

German (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Middle French (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Galician (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Malay (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Late Latin (2)

Old High German (1)

Asturian (1)

Hungarian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Zulu (1)

Japanese (1)

Macedonian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Ligurian (1)

Middle High German (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European ḱówHwos — 274 descendants | Etymology Explorer