Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “ḱelh₂-”

197 words across 74 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ḱelh₂- — including caramel, calumet, holm, culm, calamus, haulm, caramelize, shawm.

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English (28)

Finnish (10)

Latin (9)

French (8)

Spanish (7)

German (7)

Italian (6)

Polish (6)

Greek (6)

Portuguese (5)

Serbo-Croatian (5)

Ancient Greek (4)

Russian (3)

Danish (3)

Galician (3)

Icelandic (3)

Czech (3)

Turkish (3)

Japanese (3)

Translingual (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Proto-Indo-European (2)

Swedish (2)

Arabic (2)

Breton (2)

Adyghe (2)

Albanian (2)

Persian (2)

Hindi (2)

Romanian (2)

Old Norse (2)

Lower Sorbian (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Old French (2)

Middle English (2)

Macedonian (1)

Rohingya (1)

Urdu (1)

Dutch (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Kazakh (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Georgian (1)

Bashkir (1)

Turkmen (1)

Hebrew (1)

Burmese (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Hausa (1)

Catalan (1)

Cebuano (1)

Welsh (1)

Tajik (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Nepali (1)

Hijazi Arabic (1)

Punjabi (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

Old English (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Thai (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Uyghur (1)

Swahili (1)

Assamese (1)

Bengali (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)

Late Latin (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Proto-Brythonic (1)

Old High German (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European ḱelh₂- — 197 descendants | Etymology Explorer