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

101 words across 34 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European koupos — including heap, howitzer, scrapheap, heapsort, dustheap, heapeth, aheap, antheap.

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English (24)

German (20)

Dutch (10)

Middle High German (4)

Old High German (3)

Afrikaans (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Icelandic (2)

Faroese (2)

Czech (2)

Old English (2)

Portuguese (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Middle Low German (2)

Albanian (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Russian (1)

Polish (1)

French (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

West Frisian (1)

Old Norse (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Danish (1)

Papiamentu (1)

Swedish (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Middle English (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Old Danish (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European koupos — 101 descendants | Etymology Explorer