Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “h₂meygʷ-”

259 words across 41 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₂meygʷ- — including immigration, immigrant, migrate, migrating, emigrate, emigre, immigrate, amoeba.

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Latin (57)

English (47)

Finnish (45)

Italian (20)

Portuguese (11)

Dutch (8)

French (6)

Spanish (6)

Translingual (5)

Danish (4)

Hungarian (4)

Catalan (4)

Ancient Greek (3)

Icelandic (3)

Czech (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Estonian (2)

Veps (2)

Ido (2)

Proto-Finnic (2)

Irish (2)

Welsh (1)

Komi-Permyak (1)

Swedish (1)

Greek (1)

Esperanto (1)

Albanian (1)

Võro (1)

Votic (1)

Chinese (1)

Korean (1)

Cebuano (1)

German (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Galician (1)

Proto-Uralic (1)

Komi-Zyrian (1)

Ludian (1)

Tundra Nenets (1)

Proto-Italic (1)