Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “h₂wes-”

400 words across 55 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₂wes- — including was, be, by, are, were, been, am, art.

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English (228)

Icelandic (17)

Swedish (17)

Dutch (12)

Danish (11)

Telugu (9)

Italian (8)

Japanese (7)

Esperanto (7)

French (5)

Sanskrit (5)

Ancient Greek (5)

Armenian (4)

Russian (3)

Faroese (3)

Afrikaans (3)

Latin (3)

Old Irish (3)

Middle Dutch (3)

Ido (3)

North Frisian (2)

Irish (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Gothic (2)

Elfdalian (2)

Proto-Celtic (2)

Greek (2)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (2)

Cimbrian (2)

Frankish (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Old High German (1)

Tagalog (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Turkish (1)

Urdu (1)

West Frisian (1)

Egyptian Arabic (1)

Proto-Iranian (1)

Yiddish (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Hittite (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

North Levantine Arabic (1)

Middle Welsh (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Welsh (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Chinese (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European h₂wes- — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer