Words that come from Proto-Indo-European h₃reǵtós

400 words across 45 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European h₃reǵtós — including right, rights, copyright, rightly, rite, rector, alright, rectum.

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English (94)

Dutch (62)

German (51)

Swedish (50)

Italian (21)

Latin (15)

Norwegian Bokmål (11)

Norwegian Nynorsk (11)

Luxembourgish (9)

Danish (7)

Esperanto (5)

Old English (5)

French (4)

Catalan (4)

Spanish (4)

Middle English (4)

Portuguese (4)

Middle Dutch (3)

Old Dutch (3)

Westrobothnian (3)

Proto-Germanic (3)

West Frisian (2)

Icelandic (2)

Old Norse (2)

Afrikaans (1)

Welsh (1)

Hungarian (1)

Polish (1)

Old High German (1)

Chuukese (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Faroese (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Old Persian (1)

Japanese (1)

Translingual (1)

Dutch Low Saxon (1)

Russian (1)

Latvian (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Czech (1)

Gothic (1)

Indonesian (1)

Persian (1)

Scots (1)