Words that come from Proto-Indo-European h₂élyos

400 words across 34 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₂élyos — including else, parallel, alien, alienation, allegory, allergic, allele, alias.

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English (198)

French (31)

Italian (29)

Latin (24)

Ancient Greek (17)

Esperanto (15)

Greek (13)

Irish (12)

Hungarian (5)

Armenian (5)

Translingual (5)

Swedish (4)

Catalan (4)

Gothic (4)

Old Irish (3)

Old Dutch (3)

Japanese (3)

Russian (3)

Middle French (2)

Welsh (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Polish (2)

Dutch (2)

Turkish (2)

Danish (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Slovak (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

Faroese (1)

Icelandic (1)

Aromanian (1)

Asturian (1)

Korean (1)

Yiddish (1)