Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “gʷreh₂-”

400 words across 43 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European gʷreh₂- — including bar, grief, gravity, brutal, brute, brutality, grievous, grieve.

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English (250)

Italian (25)

Latin (23)

French (17)

Swedish (10)

Dutch (9)

Ancient Greek (6)

Esperanto (5)

Danish (5)

Czech (4)

Sanskrit (3)

Icelandic (3)

Polish (3)

Hungarian (3)

Catalan (3)

Proto-Indo-European (2)

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)