Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “bʰr̥s-tí-s”

293 words across 54 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European bʰr̥s-tí-s — including brush, brushing, brushes, Brush, underbrush, brushwood, toothbrush, sagebrush.

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English (90)

Finnish (51)

German (20)

Swedish (14)

French (10)

Catalan (10)

Icelandic (7)

Luxembourgish (6)

Norwegian Bokmål (6)

Norwegian Nynorsk (6)

Middle High German (5)

Danish (4)

Welsh (4)

Greenlandic (3)

Spanish (3)

Malagasy (3)

Esperanto (2)

Japanese (2)

Cebuano (2)

Tagalog (2)

Persian (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Malay (2)

Bavarian (2)

Scottish Gaelic (2)

Maltese (2)

Kashmiri (2)

Gujarati (2)

Malayalam (2)

Old High German (1)

Fiji Hindi (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Irish (1)

Galician (1)

Korean (1)

Zulu (1)

Indonesian (1)

Swahili (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Old Norse (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Old French (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Middle English (1)

Yiddish (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Plautdietsch (1)

Moore (1)

Silesian (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Bengali (1)