Words that come from Proto-Indo-European dol-

400 words across 44 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European dol- — including tell, talk, talking, telling, tools, tool, tall, tale.

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English (148)

Dutch (63)

Danish (26)

Swedish (25)

German (23)

Icelandic (21)

Faroese (10)

Norwegian Bokmål (8)

Norwegian Nynorsk (6)

Middle Dutch (5)

Afrikaans (5)

Czech (5)

West Frisian (4)

Hungarian (4)

Yiddish (4)

Old Dutch (3)

Old Swedish (3)

Luxembourgish (3)

Westrobothnian (3)

Middle English (3)

Middle Low German (2)

German Low German (2)

Central Franconian (2)

Russian (2)

Low German (1)

Esperanto (1)

Translingual (1)

Korean (1)

Polish (1)

Macedonian (1)

Slovak (1)

Chinese (1)

Old High German (1)

West Flemish (1)

French (1)

Galician (1)

Welsh (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Old Norse (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Finnish (1)

Portuguese (1)

Old Saxon (1)