Words that come from Proto-Indo-European gʰel-

400 words across 52 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European gʰel- — including glass, glasses, glow, gloom, gloomy, gleam, gleaming, glassy.

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English (136)

German (56)

Finnish (52)

Dutch (25)

Icelandic (13)

Norwegian Bokmål (12)

Swedish (11)

Proto-Germanic (7)

Old English (7)

Danish (5)

Old Dutch (5)

Middle Dutch (4)

Japanese (4)

Irish (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Middle English (4)

Faroese (3)

Luxembourgish (3)

Tok Pisin (3)

Old Norse (3)

Old Saxon (3)

Proto-Celtic (2)

Estonian (2)

Old Irish (2)

Korean (2)

Scottish Gaelic (2)

West Frisian (1)

Old High German (1)

Welsh (1)

Esperanto (1)

Guugu Yimidhirr (1)

Urdu (1)

Fiji Hindi (1)

Yiddish (1)

Latvian (1)

Yup'ik (1)

Russian (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Scanian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Alemannic German (1)

Swahili (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Malay (1)

Bengali (1)

Proto-Brythonic (1)

Kikuyu (1)

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