Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “bʰosós”

223 words across 39 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European bʰosós — including bare, barely, ballast, threadbare, barefooted, bareheaded, barest, barefaced.

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English (51)

Swedish (24)

Finnish (19)

Icelandic (15)

Norwegian Bokmål (15)

Faroese (12)

Norwegian Nynorsk (12)

Danish (11)

Old Norse (6)

Polish (4)

Old Swedish (4)

Westrobothnian (4)

Middle English (4)

Old Armenian (4)

Armenian (3)

German (3)

Lower Sorbian (3)

Old Danish (2)

Old High German (2)

Ido (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old English (2)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (2)

Lithuanian (1)

Swabian (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Esperanto (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Slovene (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Spanish (1)

Norman (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Frankish (1)

Old French (1)

Middle High German (1)