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

112 words across 27 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European (s)pel- — including spill, spilling, spilt, spool, spillover, spillway, splotch, overspill.

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English (34)

Middle English (16)

Albanian (9)

Old English (9)

Proto-Germanic (7)

Proto-Indo-European (3)

Proto-Albanian (3)

Icelandic (3)

Italian (3)

Old Norse (3)

Old Dutch (2)

Danish (2)

Old High German (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old French (2)

Old Swedish (1)

Dutch (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Japanese (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Polish (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Faroese (1)

Swedish (1)

German (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Middle High German (1)