Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “Heh₃l-”

138 words across 64 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European Heh₃l- — including elbow, ulnar, ell, ulna, olecranon, radioulnar, ellen, elbowroom.

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English (24)

Armenian (7)

Old Armenian (6)

Old Norse (6)

Middle English (6)

Proto-Indo-European (5)

Icelandic (4)

Middle High German (4)

Italian (3)

Old Frisian (3)

Old English (3)

German (3)

Old French (3)

Old High German (2)

Ancient Greek (2)

Cornish (2)

Welsh (2)

French (2)

Danish (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Saterland Frisian (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Dutch (1)

Latin (1)

Catalan (1)

Galician (1)

Irish (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Russian (1)

Czech (1)

Kashubian (1)

Polabian (1)

Polish (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Chagatai (1)

Greek (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Knaanic (1)

Slovak (1)

Japanese (1)

Macedonian (1)

Yiddish (1)

Old Novgorodian (1)

Scanian (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Portuguese (1)

Spanish (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Persian (1)

Middle French (1)

Frankish (1)

Old Czech (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European Heh₃l- — 138 descendants | Etymology Explorer