Words that come from Proto-Indo-European bʰéh₂os

400 words across 50 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European bʰéh₂os — including phosphate, phosphorus, photon, Lucifer, phosphatase, Phosphorus, photonic, phosphorescent.

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English (186)

French (25)

Italian (23)

German (18)

Spanish (16)

Ancient Greek (13)

Portuguese (13)

Greek (11)

Finnish (10)

Russian (9)

Latin (8)

Polish (7)

Sanskrit (3)

Czech (3)

Dutch (3)

Esperanto (3)

Armenian (3)

Icelandic (3)

Japanese (3)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Ido (2)

Danish (2)

Hungarian (2)

Malay (2)

Romanian (2)

Hindi (2)

New Latin (2)

Veps (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Faroese (1)

Turkish (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

Irish (1)

Latvian (1)

Translingual (1)

Georgian (1)

Tagalog (1)

Estonian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Swahili (1)

Galician (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Kazakh (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Middle English (1)

Byzantine Greek (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European bʰéh₂os — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer