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

58 words across 22 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European (s)terg- — including dreck, stercoraceous, stercobilin, stercovorous, stercolith, stercorary, stercorous, drecky.

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English (12)

Latin (8)

German (8)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Galician (3)

Old High German (3)

Luxembourgish (2)

Italian (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Portuguese (2)

Czech (1)

Slovene (1)

Yiddish (1)

Russian (1)

Esperanto (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Old English (1)

Romanian (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Middle High German (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European (s)terg- — 58 descendants | Etymology Explorer