Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “h₁el-”

133 words across 57 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₁el- — including elk, hellebore, auk, Elkton, auklet, elkhorn, elkskin, elkhound.

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English (16)

Translingual (9)

Latin (8)

Proto-Indo-European (6)

Ancient Greek (6)

Spanish (6)

German (5)

Armenian (4)

Proto-Germanic (4)

Greek (3)

Czech (3)

Proto-Slavic (3)

Old Norse (3)

Old English (3)

Swedish (2)

Italian (2)

Faroese (2)

Middle English (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Portuguese (2)

Old Armenian (2)

Middle Irish (2)

Proto-Celtic (2)

Old French (2)

Icelandic (1)

Welsh (1)

Russian (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Old High German (1)

Chavacano (1)

Polish (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

Lithuanian (1)

Danish (1)

French (1)

Asturian (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Irish (1)

Dutch (1)

Catalan (1)

Macedonian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Belarusian (1)

Persian (1)

Romanian (1)

Ladino (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Slovene (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Old Irish (1)

Proto-Brythonic (1)

Late Latin (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

New Latin (1)

Old East Slavic (1)