Words that come from Proto-Indo-European leh₂-

400 words across 61 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European leh₂- — including Nicholas, latent, Nietzsche, lament, Coll, liturgy, Nicholson, laity.

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English (85)

Latin (63)

Italian (28)

Icelandic (21)

French (15)

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Faroese (12)

German (11)

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Greek (9)

Spanish (9)

Norwegian Bokmål (9)

Swedish (8)

Dutch (8)

Portuguese (8)

Catalan (6)

Translingual (6)

Hungarian (5)

Irish (5)

Latvian (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Middle French (3)

Polish (3)

Scottish Gaelic (3)

Finnish (3)

Galician (2)

Albanian (2)

Proto-Indo-European (2)

Old Norse (2)

Norman (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Middle English (2)

Ladino (2)

Afrikaans (1)

Tagalog (1)

Russian (1)

Macedonian (1)

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Turkish (1)

Old Irish (1)

Georgian (1)

Hittite (1)

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Kalasha (1)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (1)

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