Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “h₁sónts”

400 words across 61 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₁sónts — including sun, sin, sins, sinful, ontology, ontological, soothe, sunglasses.

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English (195)

Swedish (16)

Telugu (12)

French (8)

Sanskrit (7)

Danish (7)

Old English (7)

German (7)

Hindi (7)

Thai (7)

Ancient Greek (6)

Gothic (6)

Proto-Germanic (6)

Finnish (6)

Italian (5)

Latin (5)

Esperanto (5)

Norwegian Bokmål (5)

Old Norse (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Faroese (4)

Japanese (4)

Tok Pisin (4)

Icelandic (3)

Old Swedish (3)

Greek (3)

Urdu (3)

Indonesian (3)

Middle English (3)

Norman (3)

Malay (3)

Middle French (2)

Interlingua (2)

Yiddish (2)

Gujarati (2)

Irish (2)

Chinese (2)

Old French (2)

Venetian (1)

Friulian (1)

Old High German (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Ido (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Maltese (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Korean (1)

Old Gujarati (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Pali (1)

Mon (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Spanish (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Torres Strait Creole (1)

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