Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “kleh₂-”

305 words across 54 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European kleh₂- — including Clark, clerk, clergy, laden, clergyman, clerical, looting, loot.

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English (75)

German (37)

Dutch (21)

Finnish (16)

French (10)

Italian (8)

Russian (8)

Middle English (8)

Latin (6)

Czech (6)

Proto-Germanic (6)

Old French (6)

Middle Dutch (5)

Irish (5)

Luxembourgish (5)

Spanish (5)

Swedish (4)

Icelandic (4)

Portuguese (4)

Old English (4)

Ancient Greek (3)

Old Dutch (3)

Westrobothnian (3)

Polish (3)

Old Norse (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Late Latin (3)

Old High German (3)

Danish (2)

Frankish (2)

Old Irish (2)

Middle French (2)

Manx (2)

Gothic (2)

Yiddish (2)

Scottish Gaelic (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Norman (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Middle High German (2)

Low German (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Faroese (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Galician (1)

Greek (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Chichewa (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Middle Low German (1)