Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “leh₂wos”

227 words across 51 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European leh₂wos — including Nicholas, Nietzsche, Coll, liturgy, Nicholson, laity, Nicola, Colson.

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English (39)

Icelandic (21)

Faroese (12)

German (12)

Norwegian Bokmål (11)

Italian (10)

Danish (9)

Latin (8)

Swedish (8)

Ancient Greek (7)

Greek (6)

Catalan (6)

Portuguese (6)

Finnish (6)

French (5)

Irish (5)

Spanish (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Latvian (3)

Hungarian (3)

Scottish Gaelic (3)

Dutch (2)

Polish (2)

Old Norse (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Old French (2)

Ladino (2)

Ecclesiastical Latin (2)

Late Latin (2)

Middle High German (2)

Middle French (1)

Tagalog (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Turkish (1)

Old Irish (1)

Georgian (1)

Albanian (1)

Esperanto (1)

Phrygian (1)

Translingual (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Estonian (1)

Middle English (1)

Coptic (1)

Romanian (1)

Norman (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Old High German (1)