Words that come from Proto-Indo-European gʷréh₂us

400 words across 43 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European gʷréh₂us — including bar, grief, gravity, brutal, brute, brutality, grievous, grieve.

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English (250)

Italian (25)

Latin (23)

French (18)

Swedish (10)

Dutch (9)

Ancient Greek (6)

Esperanto (5)

Danish (5)

Czech (4)

Sanskrit (3)

Icelandic (3)

Polish (3)

Hungarian (3)

Catalan (3)

Armenian (2)

Russian (2)

Middle French (1)

Urdu (1)

Welsh (1)

Old Irish (1)

Chinese (1)

Galician (1)

Irish (1)

Low German (1)

Ladin (1)

Cebuano (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

Volapük (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Aromanian (1)

Maltese (1)

Slovene (1)

Korean (1)

Faroese (1)

Middle High German (1)

Yiddish (1)

Old High German (1)

Fiji Hindi (1)

Greek (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)