Words that come from Proto-Indo-European h₂eḱus

400 words across 51 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₂eḱus — including acute, cute, acutely, acuity, acumen, acuteness, ague, subacute.

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English (100)

Latin (79)

Italian (35)

Spanish (23)

French (21)

Portuguese (21)

Catalan (10)

Romanian (10)

Polish (7)

Tagalog (6)

Finnish (6)

Middle French (5)

Translingual (5)

Galician (5)

Old French (5)

Old Portuguese (4)

Middle English (4)

Vulgar Latin (4)

Danish (3)

Chinese (3)

Swedish (3)

Ido (3)

Esperanto (2)

Ligurian (2)

Occitan (2)

Norman (2)

German (2)

New Latin (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Dutch (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Aromanian (1)

Istriot (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Tetelcingo Nahuatl (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Japanese (1)

Old Irish (1)

Irish (1)

Asturian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Classical Latin (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Northern Puebla Nahuatl (1)

Aragonese (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Indonesian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Emilian (1)

Romagnol (1)

Old Catalan (1)