Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “leh₂t-”

88 words across 24 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European leh₂t- — including larceny, larcenous, latrotoxin, ladrone, larcenist, latrodectism, latrant, larcenously.

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Latin (20)

Italian (15)

English (12)

Old French (5)

Portuguese (5)

Spanish (5)

Translingual (3)

Ancient Greek (2)

Friulian (2)

Catalan (2)

French (2)

Welsh (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Asturian (1)

Istriot (1)

Aromanian (1)

Middle French (1)

Ladino (1)

Romanian (1)

Galician (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Medieval Latin (1)