Words that come from Proto-Indo-European ḱweytós

385 words across 48 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ḱweytós — including white, White, wheat, whites, Whitehead, whitewashed, Wheatley, bismuth.

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English (173)

German (49)

Dutch (24)

Swedish (12)

Icelandic (12)

Norwegian Bokmål (12)

Danish (7)

Faroese (6)

Norwegian Nynorsk (6)

Middle High German (6)

Yiddish (5)

Old English (5)

Middle English (5)

Old High German (4)

Old Frisian (4)

Luxembourgish (4)

Westrobothnian (3)

Middle Dutch (3)

Old Dutch (3)

Proto-Germanic (3)

Tok Pisin (3)

West Frisian (2)

German Low German (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Old Norse (2)

Alemannic German (2)

Malay (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Latin (2)

Elfdalian (1)

French (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Russian (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Japanese (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Chuukese (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Translingual (1)

Gothic (1)

North Frisian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Bavarian (1)

Spanish (1)

Old Danish (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)