Words that come from Proto-Indo-European geng-

229 words across 47 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European geng- — including cancer, cancel, cancellation, chancel, cancerous, chancery, canker, anticancer.

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English (70)

Italian (24)

French (15)

Latin (14)

Spanish (11)

Portuguese (9)

German (8)

Dutch (7)

Translingual (5)

Old French (5)

Catalan (4)

Esperanto (4)

Middle English (4)

Danish (3)

Ido (3)

Norman (3)

Late Latin (3)

Asturian (2)

Turkish (2)

Galician (2)

Albanian (2)

Romanian (2)

Latvian (2)

Old High German (2)

Ancient Greek (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Middle French (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Tagalog (1)

Icelandic (1)

Urdu (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Russian (1)

Greek (1)

Indonesian (1)

Hindi (1)

Swahili (1)

Occitan (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Old English (1)

Scots (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Middle High German (1)

Byzantine Greek (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European geng- — 229 descendants | Etymology Explorer