Words that come from Proto-Indo-European (s)péndeti

400 words across 34 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European (s)péndeti — including peace, dependent, spend, expensive, spending, compensation, pound, perpendicular.

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English (237)

Latin (48)

French (33)

Italian (27)

Middle French (8)

Galician (5)

Dutch (4)

Catalan (3)

Icelandic (3)

Old High German (2)

Chinese (2)

Hungarian (2)

Old Occitan (2)

Venetian (2)

Danish (2)

Esperanto (2)

Russian (1)

Swedish (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Asturian (1)

Mirandese (1)

Irish (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Manx (1)

Welsh (1)

Faroese (1)

Tagalog (1)

Friulian (1)

Basque (1)

Slovene (1)

Hausa (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Tarantino (1)