Words that come from Proto-Indo-European lēk-

108 words across 26 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European lēk- — including legs, leg, ledge, Legge, bootleg, foreleg, leggy, bootlegging.

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English (66)

Spanish (4)

Icelandic (3)

Swedish (3)

Danish (3)

Ancient Greek (3)

Greek (3)

Middle English (3)

Westrobothnian (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Samoan Plantation Pidgin (1)

Faroese (1)

Latin (1)

Turkish (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Japanese (1)

Galician (1)

Old Norse (1)

Torres Strait Creole (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Arabic (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)

Byzantine Greek (1)

Late Latin (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European lēk- — 108 descendants | Etymology Explorer