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

90 words across 33 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European dwey- — including dire, dinosaur, direful, Deimos, direly, direfully, dinosaurian, direness.

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English (20)

Ancient Greek (14)

Translingual (11)

Latin (6)

Proto-Indo-European (5)

French (2)

Russian (2)

Italian (2)

Hungarian (2)

Ido (2)

Thai (2)

Sanskrit (1)

Kazakh (1)

Greek (1)

Turkish (1)

Esperanto (1)

Burmese (1)

Czech (1)

Spanish (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

Romanian (1)

Mongolian (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

German (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Norman (1)

Dutch (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Hindi (1)

New Latin (1)