Words that come from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₂u-

304 words across 43 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₂u- — including boy, boys, bo, boyfriend, boyhood, cowboy, boyish, beacon.

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English (189)

Cebuano (10)

Norwegian Bokmål (9)

Middle English (8)

Danish (6)

Portuguese (6)

Dutch (5)

Russian (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Old English (5)

French (4)

Spanish (4)

Korean (3)

Japanese (3)

Tok Pisin (3)

Old French (3)

Proto-West Germanic (3)

Sranan Tongo (2)

Yiddish (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Vietnamese (2)

American English (2)

Middle Persian (2)

Middle Dutch (1)

Italian (1)

Tagalog (1)

Catalan (1)

Galician (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Turkish (1)

Armenian (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Estonian (1)

Hausa (1)

Swedish (1)

Thai (1)

Persian (1)

Finnish (1)

German (1)

Pijin (1)

Swahili (1)

Frankish (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₂u- — 304 descendants | Etymology Explorer