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

349 words across 55 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European (s)mal- — including small, smaller, Small, smallpox, smallness, smallmouth, Maly, smalltown.

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English (62)

Polish (61)

Russian (57)

Czech (38)

Serbo-Croatian (18)

German (17)

Swedish (10)

Dutch (8)

Ukrainian (6)

Norwegian Nynorsk (6)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Icelandic (3)

Yiddish (3)

Middle English (3)

Pichinglis (3)

Macedonian (2)

Old Church Slavonic (2)

Old Norse (2)

Lower Sorbian (2)

Upper Sorbian (2)

Belarusian (2)

Old Polish (2)

Tagalog (2)

North Frisian (2)

Vilamovian (2)

Low German (1)

Slovak (1)

Danish (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Old High German (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Volapük (1)

Norwegian (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Old English (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Papiamentu (1)

Torres Strait Creole (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Old East Slavic (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Middle High German (1)

Slovincian (1)

Kashubian (1)

Silesian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Yola (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Japanese (1)

Chinese (1)