Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “(s)keh₁t-”

140 words across 37 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European (s)keh₁t- — including scathing, scathingly, schadenfreude, scathe, skedaddle, skaith, scath, scathful.

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English (19)

Dutch (15)

Norwegian Bokmål (13)

German (12)

Swedish (8)

Norwegian Nynorsk (8)

Middle English (6)

Low German (5)

Old English (5)

Middle Dutch (4)

Proto-Germanic (4)

Czech (3)

Icelandic (3)

Danish (3)

Old Dutch (2)

Old High German (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Polish (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Old Norse (2)

Middle Low German (2)

Middle High German (2)

Slovak (1)

Faroese (1)

Old Danish (1)

Yiddish (1)

Old Irish (1)

Irish (1)

Japanese (1)

Alemannic German (1)

Scots (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Portuguese (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European (s)keh₁t- — 140 descendants | Etymology Explorer