Words that come from Proto-Indo-European bʰloyǵ-os

400 words across 46 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European bʰloyǵ-os — including black, Black, Blake, bleak, blacksmith, Blackstone, blackboard, Blackwood.

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English (223)

German (25)

Dutch (9)

Danish (9)

Old English (9)

Middle English (9)

Swedish (8)

French (8)

Norwegian Bokmål (8)

Yiddish (6)

Norwegian Nynorsk (6)

Icelandic (5)

Italian (5)

Portuguese (5)

Norman (5)

Middle Dutch (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Old High German (4)

Middle High German (4)

Japanese (3)

Tok Pisin (3)

Faroese (2)

Old Dutch (2)

Chinese (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Russian (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Old Norse (2)

Pennsylvania German (2)

Spanish (2)

Finnish (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Tagalog (2)

Afrikaans (1)

Volapük (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Torres Strait Creole (1)

Walloon (1)

Scots (1)

Thai (1)

Proto-Finnic (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Maltese (1)