Words that come from Proto-Indo-European Hreh₁dʰ-

400 words across 47 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European Hreh₁dʰ- — including read, reading, array, Ralph, dread, readable, reed, riddle.

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English (117)

Swedish (50)

German (47)

Dutch (26)

Icelandic (14)

Old English (14)

Middle English (11)

Norwegian Nynorsk (11)

Norwegian Bokmål (9)

Czech (7)

Proto-Germanic (6)

Old Norse (5)

Proto-West Germanic (5)

Danish (4)

Luxembourgish (4)

Faroese (4)

Middle Dutch (4)

Old Dutch (4)

Italian (4)

Gothic (4)

Afrikaans (4)

Yiddish (4)

Proto-Indo-European (4)

Polish (3)

Albanian (3)

Latvian (3)

Portuguese (3)

Old Saxon (3)

Sanskrit (2)

Vilamovian (2)

Old Irish (2)

Finnish (2)

French (1)

Bislama (1)

Estonian (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Slovene (1)

Volapük (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Old French (1)

Pennsylvania German (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Ossetian (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)