Words that come from Proto-Indo-European h₃ligos

248 words across 27 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₃ligos — including oligarchy, oligonucleotide, Oligocene, oligarchic, oligotrophic, oligosaccharide, oligomeric, oligomerization.

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English (164)

Italian (32)

Ancient Greek (6)

Spanish (6)

Albanian (4)

Latin (3)

Russian (3)

Hungarian (3)

Late Latin (3)

French (2)

Czech (2)

Greek (2)

Hebrew (2)

Catalan (2)

German (2)

Slovak (1)

Turkish (1)

Armenian (1)

Georgian (1)

Irish (1)

Danish (1)

Swedish (1)

Translingual (1)

Finnish (1)

Portuguese (1)

New Latin (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)