Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “ḱlew-”
400 words across 55 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ḱlew- — including Louis, listen, listening, loud, Lewis, Louisiana, Louise, listener.
See the etymology of ḱlew- itself →
English (89)
- Louis
- listen
- listening
- loud
- Lewis
- Louisiana
- Louise
- listener
- Luis
- Ludwig
- Hercules
- Slovakia
- clientele
- Euclid
- Pericles
- Sophocles
- Diocletian
- Heraclitus
- Czechoslovak
- Heracles
- louis
- loudspeaker
- Clio
- Empedocles
- Patroclus
- Louisbourg
- lew
- clientelism
- Euclidian
- Clotilda
- clientelist
- clientelistic
- Wenceslaus
- Heraclea
- Slovakian
- Androcles
- umlaut
- Sruti
- ablaut
- Sophoclean
- loudmouth
- loudmouthed
- listenership
- sloka
- Louisianian
- Louisianan
- cliometrics
- Slavi
- Lewisian
- Lewisville
- lauter
- Iraklion
- clientèle
- Empedoclean
- loudhailer
- slava
- overloud
- listenable
- loude
- listeneth
- lewisite
- shloka
- Czechoslovakism
- unlistening
- unlistenable
- listenest
- nonlistening
- cliometrician
- louden
- loudish
- relisten
- lautering
- antilewisite
- listenability
- nonlistener
- overloudly
- anlaut
- auslaut
- clienteling
- unlistenably
- inlaut
- loudsome
- umlaute
- Œcles
- prelisten
- pseudolisten
- umlautless
- overloudness
- loudmouthedness
Ancient Greek (46)
- κλέος
- κλυτός
- Κλειώ
- Ἡρακλῆς
- Περικλῆς
- Σοφοκλῆς
- Ἐμπεδοκλῆς
- Ἀντίκλεια
- Ἀμεινοκλῆς
- -κλῆς
- Ἀνδροκλῆς
- Χαρικλῆς
- Κλεαίνετος
- Κλέανδρος
- Κλέαρχος
- κλειτός
- Κλεῖτος
- Κλεομένης
- Κλεώνυμος
- Κλεοφῶν
- κλέω
- Ἐτεοκλῆς
- Ἐτέοκλος
- Εὐκλῆς
- Εὐκλείδης
- Εὐρύκλεια
- Εὐρυκλῆς
- Ἡράκλεια
- Ἡρακλείδης
- Ἡράκλειτος
- Ἡράκλανον
- Ἡράκλειον
- Ἴφικλος
- Λυσικλῆς
- Μεγακλῆς
- Νεοκλῆς
- Οἰκλῆς
- Οἰκλείδης
- Πάτροκλος
- Προκλῆς
- Θεμιστοκλῆς
- Ξενοκλῆς
- Ξενοκλείδας
- Ἀγαθοκλῆς
- Διοκλῆς
- Ἀριστοκλῆς