Words that come from Proto-Indo-European leys

400 words across 44 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European leys — including lore, folklore, lair, alder, leer, leering, folkloric, leery.

See the etymology of leys itself →

English (107)

German (79)

Swedish (32)

Dutch (19)

Old English (16)

Danish (15)

Middle English (13)

Norwegian Nynorsk (12)

Norwegian Bokmål (11)

Serbo-Croatian (8)

Spanish (7)

Faroese (5)

Icelandic (5)

Luxembourgish (5)

Old Saxon (5)

Old Dutch (4)

Middle Dutch (4)

Old High German (4)

Gothic (4)

Italian (4)

Middle Low German (4)

French (3)

Catalan (3)

Yiddish (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Portuguese (2)

Alemannic German (2)

Old Norse (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Middle High German (2)

Kazakh (2)

Plautdietsch (2)

Romanian (2)

Afrikaans (1)

Estonian (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Polish (1)

Latvian (1)

Scots (1)

Hungarian (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Indonesian (1)

Russian (1)

Elfdalian (1)