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

172 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European mértis — including mortality, mortal, mortgage, immortal, immortality, mortgagee, mort, mortgagor.

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English (58)

Latin (16)

French (13)

Italian (10)

Old French (8)

Spanish (8)

Portuguese (8)

Catalan (7)

Middle French (4)

Middle English (4)

Albanian (3)

Norman (3)

Occitan (3)

Anglo-Norman (3)

Asturian (2)

Esperanto (2)

Lithuanian (1)

Ladin (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Galician (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (1)

Greek (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Mirandese (1)

Istriot (1)

Aromanian (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Romanian (1)

Walloon (1)

Sardinian (1)

Sicilian (1)

Aragonese (1)

Picard (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)