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

61 words across 25 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European kʷey — including why, whyever, whyn't, whyness, somewhy, vad, hvad, hvað.

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Czech (11)

English (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Icelandic (4)

Swedish (3)

Danish (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Old Norse (3)

Faroese (2)

Westrobothnian (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Russian (2)

Old English (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Slovak (1)

Polish (1)

Macedonian (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Middle English (1)

Old Czech (1)

Old East Slavic (1)