Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “h₃ep-”

400 words across 23 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₃ep- — including office, operation, officer, official, copy, operate, cooperation, copyright.

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English (287)

Latin (36)

Italian (21)

French (18)

Dutch (6)

Catalan (5)

Icelandic (5)

Proto-Indo-European (3)

Danish (3)

Old Irish (2)

Galician (2)

Ancient Greek (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Ido (1)

Irish (1)

Indonesian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Middle French (1)

Tagalog (1)

Faroese (1)

Armenian (1)

Swedish (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)