Words that come from Proto-Indo-European gū-

400 words across 35 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European gū- — including could, code, clean, coding, bowel, glue, cleansing, cleaner.

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English (276)

Latin (18)

Dutch (15)

French (12)

Icelandic (9)

Hungarian (9)

Italian (8)

Danish (7)

Swedish (7)

Czech (4)

Proto-Indo-European (3)

Faroese (3)

Polish (3)

Gaulish (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Estonian (2)

Translingual (2)

Low German (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Esperanto (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Slovene (1)

Turkish (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Macedonian (1)

Russian (1)

Slovak (1)

Greek (1)

Kashubian (1)

Japanese (1)

Old Dutch (1)