Words that come from Proto-Indo-European h₁léwdʰis

400 words across 47 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₁léwdʰis — including lead, Luther, Leopold, lick, lull, licking, leaden, liege.

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English (237)

Norwegian Bokmål (15)

Norwegian Nynorsk (12)

German (11)

Old English (11)

Middle English (10)

Russian (8)

Icelandic (8)

Luxembourgish (7)

Serbo-Croatian (7)

Ukrainian (7)

Polish (6)

Old High German (4)

Czech (4)

French (4)

Old Frisian (3)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (3)

Portuguese (3)

Latin (3)

Yiddish (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Finnish (2)

Old Norse (2)

Slovak (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Jamaican Creole (2)

Catalan (2)

Belarusian (2)

Frankish (1)

Faroese (1)

Gothic (1)

Norwegian (1)

Old French (1)

Slovene (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Scots (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Middle High German (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Old Czech (1)

Proto-Norse (1)

Romanian (1)

Plautdietsch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)