Words that come from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₂os

400 words across 50 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₂os — 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)