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

400 words across 42 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European gʰes- — including surgery, k, surgical, surgeon, surgically, chiral, kilogram, kilometre.

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English (200)

Italian (46)

French (19)

Catalan (15)

Ancient Greek (13)

Greek (12)

Telugu (10)

Dutch (8)

Latin (7)

Armenian (7)

Hungarian (6)

Translingual (5)

Proto-Indo-European (4)

Arabic (4)

Turkish (3)

Sanskrit (3)

Russian (3)

Gujarati (3)

Kurdish (2)

Korean (2)

Polish (2)

Macedonian (2)

Esperanto (2)

Japanese (2)

Pali (2)

Cebuano (2)

Breton (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Rohingya (1)

Gaulish (1)

Old Gujarati (1)

Old Persian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Tamil (1)

Urdu (1)

Georgian (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Bashkir (1)

Rajasthani (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Marathi (1)

Konkani (1)