Words that come from Proto-Indo-European léwh₃eti

400 words across 40 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European léwh₃eti — including Liverpool, leverage, lever, laundry, deluge, lotus, levers, alluvial.

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English (98)

Latin (79)

Italian (41)

French (27)

Spanish (27)

Portuguese (23)

Romanian (16)

Old French (10)

Norman (8)

Esperanto (7)

Cebuano (5)

Tagalog (5)

Middle English (5)

Galician (4)

Dutch (3)

Translingual (3)

Aromanian (3)

Asturian (3)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Finnish (3)

Hungarian (2)

Japanese (2)

Catalan (2)

Sicilian (2)

Ligurian (2)

Haitian Creole (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Russian (1)

Ido (1)

Swedish (1)

Slovak (1)

Volapük (1)

Georgian (1)

Friulian (1)

Czech (1)

Macedonian (1)

Papiamentu (1)

German (1)

Old English (1)

Proto-Italic (1)