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

97 words across 33 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European denḱ- — including thou, tough, tong, toughen, toughie, toughminded, toughish, tonging.

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English (22)

Dutch (7)

German (7)

Proto-Germanic (5)

Icelandic (4)

Ancient Greek (4)

Middle English (4)

Sanskrit (3)

Albanian (3)

Old Dutch (3)

Swedish (3)

Translingual (3)

Old English (3)

Middle Dutch (2)

Old Norse (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Old High German (2)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (2)

Danish (1)

Faroese (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Japanese (1)

Konkani (1)

Ido (1)

Hindi (1)

Sauraseni Prakrit (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Middle High German (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)