Words that come from Proto-Indo-European bale-

141 words across 22 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European bale- — including pool, pole, poles, poll, polling, dipole, cesspool, flagpole.

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English (107)

Dutch (4)

Middle English (3)

Old High German (3)

Swedish (2)

Icelandic (2)

Irish (2)

German (2)

Scots (2)

Old Norse (2)

Middle Irish (1)

Korean (1)

Russian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Japanese (1)

Manx (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Old English (1)

Spanish (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Luxembourgish (1)