Words that come from Proto-Indo-European dol-

400 words across 42 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European dol- — including tell, telling, tall, toll, untold, tally, telltale, tolling.

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English (66)

German (62)

Swedish (55)

Norwegian Bokmål (36)

Dutch (29)

Danish (27)

Icelandic (19)

Middle English (16)

Welsh (9)

Norwegian Nynorsk (9)

Old English (8)

Faroese (7)

Proto-Germanic (7)

Old Norse (5)

West Frisian (4)

Old Swedish (3)

Middle Low German (3)

Westrobothnian (3)

Old Dutch (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Czech (2)

Central Franconian (2)

Finnish (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Middle High German (2)

Old High German (2)

Low German (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Translingual (1)

Yiddish (1)

Esperanto (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Pitcairn-Norfolk (1)

Limburgish (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Polish (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Cimbrian (1)

Malay (1)

Cornish (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European dol- — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer