Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “ḱowh₁ós”

275 words across 37 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ḱowh₁ós — including cave, cavity, cage, cavern, concave, cavernous, cava, gage.

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English (124)

Latin (27)

Italian (22)

French (11)

Spanish (9)

Esperanto (8)

Romanian (8)

Portuguese (8)

Catalan (5)

Old French (5)

Middle English (5)

Ido (4)

Dutch (3)

German (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Middle French (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Galician (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Malay (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Late Latin (2)

Old High German (1)

Asturian (1)

Hungarian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Zulu (1)

Japanese (1)

Macedonian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Ligurian (1)

Middle High German (1)