Words that come from Proto-Indo-European (s)kʷálos

238 words across 43 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European (s)kʷálos — including whale, squalid, squalor, walrus, whaler, whalebone, whaleboat, narwhal.

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Finnish (60)

English (44)

German (15)

Swedish (14)

Norwegian Nynorsk (14)

Italian (9)

Norwegian Bokmål (9)

Icelandic (8)

Dutch (7)

Latin (5)

Faroese (4)

Old Norse (4)

Old Dutch (3)

French (3)

Translingual (3)

Northern Sami (3)

Danish (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Polish (2)

Old English (2)

Spanish (2)

Middle English (2)

Norwegian (1)

Manx (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Irish (1)

Georgian (1)

Burmese (1)

Lule Sami (1)

Pite Sami (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Thai (1)

Hindi (1)

Scots (1)

Proto-Samic (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Cebuano (1)

Latvian (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Old High German (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European (s)kʷálos — 238 descendants | Etymology Explorer