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

164 words across 40 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European -w- — including ruin, ruinous, ruination, ruinously, ruelle, ruiner, ruinousness, rutaceous.

See the etymology of -w- itself →

Latin (51)

English (16)

French (9)

Italian (8)

Old French (8)

Spanish (8)

Portuguese (7)

Czech (6)

German (5)

Middle English (5)

Dutch (4)

Friulian (3)

Translingual (2)

Middle French (2)

Russian (2)

Romanian (2)

Old Czech (2)

Catalan (2)

Venetian (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Old Polish (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Polish (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Norman (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Old Norse (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Classical Latin (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Old High German (1)

Old East Slavic (1)

Middle High German (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Old Portuguese (1)