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

118 words across 27 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European linékʷti — including delinquency, delinquent, derelict, dereliction, relict, reliquary, delict, delictual.

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Latin (29)

English (21)

Italian (11)

French (8)

Spanish (7)

Dutch (6)

Portuguese (5)

Irish (4)

Old Irish (3)

Late Latin (3)

Middle French (2)

Old French (2)

German (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Sanskrit (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Hungarian (1)

Catalan (1)

Manx (1)

Ladin (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Romanian (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Middle English (1)

Middle Dutch (1)