Words that come from Proto-Indo-European h₂égʰos

400 words across 48 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₂égʰos — including a, as, an, ask, eye, whereas, awful, eyed.

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English (256)

Middle English (16)

Swedish (15)

German (10)

Danish (8)

Icelandic (7)

Tok Pisin (6)

Old English (5)

Cornish (5)

Old Norse (4)

Proto-Germanic (4)

Middle High German (4)

Ancient Greek (3)

Dutch (3)

Faroese (3)

Norwegian (3)

Sranan Tongo (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Unami (3)

Latin (2)

Gothic (2)

Italian (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Portuguese (2)

Spanish (2)

Finnish (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Polish (2)

Volapük (2)

Westrobothnian (1)

Old High German (1)

Nigerian Pidgin (1)

Japanese (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Hebrew (1)

Old Danish (1)

Latvian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Russian (1)

French (1)

Yiddish (1)

Afrikaans (1)

West Frisian (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Kriol (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Jamaican Creole (1)

Gujarati (1)