Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “méh₂tēr”

400 words across 59 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European méh₂tēr — including mother, matter, material, May, matrix, maternal, metropolitan, materially.

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English (245)

Latin (19)

French (12)

Italian (11)

Swedish (10)

Slovak (8)

Ancient Greek (7)

Russian (6)

Dutch (5)

Icelandic (4)

Asturian (4)

Danish (3)

Polish (3)

Galician (3)

Ido (3)

Middle French (2)

Irish (2)

Greek (2)

Armenian (2)

Catalan (2)

Venetian (2)

Ladin (2)

Welsh (2)

Crimean Tatar (2)

Aragonese (2)

Friulian (2)

Tagalog (2)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (2)

Albanian (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Phrygian (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Old Polish (1)

Chavacano (1)

Hebrew (1)

Aromanian (1)

Old East Slavic (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Norwegian (1)

Cornish (1)

Old High German (1)

Hunsrik (1)

Macedonian (1)

Faroese (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

Translingual (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Persian (1)

Urdu (1)

Kashmiri (1)

North Frisian (1)

Slovene (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Esperanto (1)

Old Irish (1)

West Frisian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Turkish (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European méh₂tēr — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer