Words that come from Proto-Indo-European h₂elbʰós

400 words across 69 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₂elbʰós — including Alfred, album, auf, Avery, albumin, Alvin, elf, elves.

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English (114)

Latin (72)

French (14)

Italian (11)

Swedish (11)

German (11)

Irish (10)

Portuguese (10)

Romanian (10)

Finnish (9)

Spanish (8)

Danish (7)

Hungarian (7)

Dutch (5)

Manx (4)

Aromanian (4)

Czech (4)

Slovak (4)

Translingual (4)

Old Norse (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Old French (4)

Catalan (3)

Cebuano (3)

Norwegian (3)

Japanese (3)

Old English (3)

Middle High German (2)

Faroese (2)

Old Irish (2)

Icelandic (2)

Polish (2)

Russian (2)

Korean (2)

Romansch (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old High German (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Asturian (1)

Istriot (1)

Turkish (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Old Polish (1)

Friulian (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Indonesian (1)

Estonian (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Umbrian (1)

Old Welsh (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Proto-Finnic (1)

Slovene (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Welsh (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Chinese (1)

Greek (1)

Hindi (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Proto-Brythonic (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Belarusian (1)

Norman (1)

Middle English (1)

Occitan (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European h₂elbʰós — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer