Words that come from Proto-Indo-European bʰos-

224 words across 40 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European bʰos- — 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)

Proto-Indo-European (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)