Words that come from Proto-Indo-European ḱweytos

400 words across 67 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ḱweytos — including white, White, wheat, whites, Whitehead, whitewashed, Wheatley, bismuth.

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English (172)

German (33)

Dutch (24)

Swedish (12)

Icelandic (12)

Czech (12)

Norwegian Bokmål (11)

Danish (7)

Russian (7)

Faroese (6)

Yiddish (5)

Polish (5)

Serbo-Croatian (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Old Frisian (4)

Luxembourgish (4)

Westrobothnian (3)

Slovene (3)

Proto-Germanic (3)

Old English (3)

Persian (3)

West Frisian (2)

Old High German (2)

Macedonian (2)

Bulgarian (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Proto-Slavic (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Old Norse (2)

Lower Sorbian (2)

Upper Sorbian (2)

Alemannic German (2)

Malay (2)

Hindi (2)

Sanskrit (1)

Elfdalian (1)

Slovak (1)

German Low German (1)

French (1)

Old Czech (1)

Urdu (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Latvian (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Telugu (1)

Volapük (1)

Japanese (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Old East Slavic (1)

Gujarati (1)

Chuukese (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Translingual (1)

Gothic (1)

North Frisian (1)

Gandhari (1)

Awadhi (1)

Cebuano (1)

Punjabi (1)

Middle Persian (1)

Belarusian (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European ḱweytos — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer