Words that come from Proto-Indo-European -w-

189 words across 37 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European -w- — including ruin, ruinous, rabble, ruination, ruinously, ruinate, ruiner, rabblement.

See the etymology of -w- itself →

Latin (57)

English (24)

Spanish (10)

French (9)

Italian (8)

Catalan (8)

Portuguese (8)

Old French (7)

Romanian (5)

Polish (4)

German (4)

Middle English (4)

Venetian (3)

Albanian (3)

Czech (3)

Galician (3)

Ancient Greek (3)

Proto-Indo-European (2)

Proto-Albanian (2)

Middle French (2)

Mauritian Creole (2)

Emilian (2)

Champenois (2)

Friulian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Classical Latin (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Alemannic German (1)

Welsh (1)

Moroccan Arabic (1)

Hunsrik (1)

Tarifit (1)

Tagalog (1)

Macedonian (1)

Russian (1)