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

79 words across 37 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European laḱs- — including lazy, lazily, lax, laziness, laxness, lox, laxly, lazybones.

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English (27)

German (7)

Swedish (3)

Faroese (3)

Danish (2)

Russian (2)

Polish (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Middle Low German (2)

Icelandic (1)

Yiddish (1)

Czech (1)

Slovak (1)

Slovene (1)

Macedonian (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Elfdalian (1)

Old English (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Old Norse (1)

Middle English (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Belarusian (1)

Portuguese (1)

Yakut (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (1)

German Low German (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Old High German (1)

Middle High German (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)