Words that come from Proto-Indo-European ḱléwos

224 words across 51 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ḱléwos — including Hercules, Slovakia, Euclid, Pericles, Sophocles, Diocletian, Czechoslovak, Heracles.

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Ancient Greek (53)

English (22)

Serbo-Croatian (18)

Latin (16)

Italian (10)

Polish (8)

Czech (6)

Hungarian (5)

Portuguese (5)

Scottish Gaelic (5)

Slovak (4)

Russian (4)

Proto-Slavic (4)

Greek (3)

Slovene (3)

Japanese (3)

French (3)

Armenian (3)

Icelandic (3)

Latvian (3)

Spanish (3)

Old Armenian (3)

German (3)

Irish (2)

Faroese (2)

Macedonian (2)

Ukrainian (2)

Arabic (2)

Old Church Slavonic (2)

Translingual (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

Kashubian (1)

Old Polish (1)

Old Irish (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Quechua (1)

Basque (1)

Welsh (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Belarusian (1)

Persian (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Romanian (1)

Assamese (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Old East Slavic (1)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (1)