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

400 words across 47 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European (s)kert- — including short, courtesy, cortex, shortage, cortical, shortest, shortcut, shorthand.

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English (187)

Italian (23)

Latin (21)

French (18)

Dutch (17)

Spanish (16)

Finnish (16)

Swedish (14)

Norwegian Bokmål (8)

Asturian (6)

German (6)

Norwegian Nynorsk (6)

Danish (5)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Japanese (3)

Hungarian (3)

Middle English (3)

Old French (3)

Portuguese (3)

Friulian (2)

Ladin (2)

Middle French (2)

Old High German (2)

Galician (2)

Venetian (2)

Icelandic (2)

Translingual (2)

Old English (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Dalmatian (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Russian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Turkish (1)

Aromanian (1)

Old Irish (1)

Irish (1)

Yiddish (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Catalan (1)

Tarantino (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Romanian (1)