Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “(s)kand-”

396 words across 81 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European (s)kand- — including candidate, candle, candles, incense, candid, candor, Chandra, candidacy.

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English (90)

Italian (45)

Latin (44)

Spanish (16)

French (15)

Portuguese (14)

Telugu (9)

Old French (9)

Dutch (8)

Sanskrit (8)

Hindi (8)

Catalan (7)

Galician (7)

German (6)

Norman (5)

Middle English (5)

Old Portuguese (4)

Translingual (3)

Urdu (3)

Irish (3)

Albanian (3)

Ancient Greek (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Thai (3)

Classical Malay (3)

Tagalog (2)

Russian (2)

Lao (2)

Hungarian (2)

Swedish (2)

Indonesian (2)

Cornish (2)

Gujarati (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Assamese (2)

Romanian (2)

Anglo-Norman (2)

Vulgar Latin (2)

Konkani (1)

Marathi (1)

Rajasthani (1)

Polish (1)

Faroese (1)

Old Irish (1)

Kannada (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Icelandic (1)

Esperanto (1)

Sicilian (1)

Manx (1)

Friulian (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Arabic (1)

Japanese (1)

Korean (1)

Sindhi (1)

Cebuano (1)

Pali (1)

Burmese (1)

Macedonian (1)

Danish (1)

Sauraseni Prakrit (1)

Nepali (1)

Bengali (1)

Sinhalese (1)

Old English (1)

Old Norse (1)

Romansch (1)

Malay (1)

Ladino (1)

Papiamentu (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Early Assamese (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Late Latin (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European (s)kand- — 396 descendants | Etymology Explorer