Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “léwh₃eti”

400 words across 39 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European léwh₃eti — including pollution, Liverpool, leverage, lever, laundry, dilute, lava, deluge.

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English (120)

Latin (73)

Italian (42)

French (39)

Portuguese (20)

Spanish (16)

Romanian (10)

Norman (8)

Esperanto (7)

Galician (6)

Cebuano (5)

Old French (5)

Hungarian (4)

Translingual (3)

Aromanian (3)

Catalan (3)

Asturian (3)

Tagalog (3)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Czech (2)

Slovak (2)

Sicilian (2)

Ligurian (2)

Finnish (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Haitian Creole (2)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Dutch (1)

Macedonian (1)

Russian (1)

Japanese (1)

Volapük (1)

Georgian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Friulian (1)

Middle French (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Papiamentu (1)

German (1)