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

122 words across 40 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European lewgʰ- — including liar, lee, leeward, leeway, lier, alee, inlier, leeside.

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English (13)

Middle English (10)

Old English (10)

German (8)

Proto-Germanic (6)

Icelandic (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Swedish (4)

Old Norse (4)

Old High German (4)

Middle High German (4)

Westrobothnian (3)

Danish (3)

Czech (3)

Dutch (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Faroese (2)

Old Frisian (2)

Estonian (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Proto-Indo-European (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Old Danish (2)

Middle Dutch (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Russian (1)

Slovene (1)

North Frisian (1)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (1)

Macedonian (1)

Polish (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Gothic (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Scots (1)

Old Dutch (1)