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

191 words across 49 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European gal- — including cling, clink, clench, clinking, clinch, clack, clingy, clincher.

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English (47)

French (14)

Old English (14)

Serbo-Croatian (10)

Middle English (10)

Czech (8)

German (7)

Russian (6)

Polish (5)

Proto-Germanic (5)

Latin (4)

Italian (4)

Old French (4)

Proto-Indo-European (3)

Dutch (3)

Middle Dutch (3)

Esperanto (3)

Luxembourgish (3)

Spanish (3)

Ancient Greek (2)

Middle French (2)

Old Dutch (2)

Old East Slavic (2)

Middle High German (2)

Slovene (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Kashubian (1)

Greek (1)

Indonesian (1)

Hungarian (1)

Translingual (1)

Yiddish (1)

Slovak (1)

Swedish (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Portuguese (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Romanian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (1)

Frankish (1)

Old High German (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Old Saxon (1)