Words that come from Proto-Indo-European h₂ḱrós

400 words across 51 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₂ḱrós — including eager, eagerly, eagerness, vinegar, acrylic, acrid, Acropolis, acrimonious.

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English (168)

Italian (39)

Latin (34)

French (20)

Irish (14)

Spanish (14)

Ancient Greek (12)

Esperanto (12)

Greek (12)

Translingual (9)

Polish (7)

Manx (4)

Scottish Gaelic (4)

Old Irish (3)

Portuguese (3)

Middle French (2)

Venetian (2)

Albanian (2)

Slovene (2)

Czech (2)

Dutch (2)

Gaulish (2)

Romanian (2)

Old French (2)

Proto-Italic (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Sicilian (1)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (1)

Russian (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Turkish (1)

Japanese (1)

Oscan (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Armenian (1)

Chinese (1)

Macedonian (1)

Catalan (1)

Finnish (1)

German (1)

Norman (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Middle English (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Ido (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Belarusian (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)