Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “(s)kewh₁-”

400 words across 65 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European (s)kewh₁- — including show, shown, showing, precaution, shew, sheen, Thucydides, caveat.

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English (109)

Finnish (46)

German (35)

Latin (19)

Armenian (18)

Italian (13)

Dutch (11)

Spanish (11)

Russian (8)

Portuguese (8)

Serbo-Croatian (7)

French (5)

Sanskrit (5)

Polish (5)

Telugu (5)

Proto-Slavic (5)

Ancient Greek (4)

Swedish (4)

Middle Dutch (4)

Old Armenian (4)

Old Dutch (3)

Volapük (3)

Japanese (3)

Korean (3)

Proto-Germanic (3)

Old English (3)

Danish (2)

Central Franconian (2)

Yiddish (2)

Albanian (2)

Urdu (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Gothic (2)

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Hindi (2)

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Cornish (1)

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