Words that come from Proto-Indo-European ḱléwos

400 words across 63 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ḱléwos — including slave, slaves, slavery, Slavic, Slovakia, antislavery, enslavement, Slavs.

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English (95)

Russian (29)

Serbo-Croatian (22)

Ancient Greek (19)

Italian (19)

French (17)

Dutch (14)

Portuguese (14)

German (12)

Czech (11)

Finnish (10)

Slovene (9)

Polish (8)

Slovak (7)

Romanian (7)

Albanian (6)

Hungarian (6)

Spanish (6)

Latin (5)

Esperanto (5)

Scottish Gaelic (5)

Danish (4)

Swedish (4)

Greek (4)

Galician (4)

Proto-Slavic (4)

Irish (3)

Macedonian (3)

Catalan (3)

Latvian (3)

Old Church Slavonic (3)

Faroese (2)

Venetian (2)

Ukrainian (2)

Kashubian (2)

Aromanian (2)

Manx (2)

Haitian Creole (2)

Bulgarian (1)

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Afrikaans (1)

Old Polish (1)

Old Irish (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Japanese (1)

Korean (1)

Armenian (1)

Welsh (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Friulian (1)

Translingual (1)

Yiddish (1)

Ido (1)

Chechen (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

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Assamese (1)

Old Armenian (1)

Belarusian (1)

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Lower Sorbian (1)

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