Words that come from Proto-Indo-European ḱowh₁ós

400 words across 43 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ḱowh₁ós — including cave, jail, cavity, cage, cavern, concave, Cage, gaol.

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English (178)

Latin (46)

Italian (35)

French (23)

Portuguese (13)

Albanian (11)

Spanish (11)

Catalan (8)

Esperanto (8)

Romanian (7)

Old French (7)

Dutch (4)

Ido (4)

German (3)

Romansch (3)

Finnish (3)

Middle French (2)

Urdu (2)

Friulian (2)

Zulu (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Middle English (2)

Malay (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Venetian (1)

Old High German (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Asturian (1)

Swedish (1)

Galician (1)

Hungarian (1)

Tulu (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Aromanian (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Yiddish (1)

Japanese (1)

Macedonian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)