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

81 words across 26 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European glengʰ- — including cling, clink, clench, clinking, clinch, clingy, clincher, clingstone.

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English (31)

French (7)

German (6)

Old English (4)

Esperanto (3)

Middle English (3)

Dutch (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old French (2)

Middle High German (2)

Hungarian (1)

Polish (1)

Russian (1)

Yiddish (1)

Swedish (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Frankish (1)

Old High German (1)

Middle French (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Old Saxon (1)