Words that come from Proto-Indo-European mē-

400 words across 53 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European mē- — including more, moral, mood, mud, morally, morals, mare, muddy.

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English (147)

German (28)

Dutch (22)

French (14)

Danish (13)

Finnish (13)

Latin (10)

Italian (10)

Latvian (9)

Swedish (8)

Catalan (8)

Gothic (8)

Middle Dutch (7)

Old English (7)

Yiddish (6)

Spanish (5)

Scots (5)

Proto-Germanic (5)

Icelandic (4)

Old Dutch (4)

Faroese (4)

Luxembourgish (4)

Old Norse (4)

Portuguese (4)

Old Irish (3)

Manx (3)

Hungarian (3)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Middle English (3)

Scottish Gaelic (3)

Old Saxon (3)

Middle French (2)

Old Frisian (2)

Breton (2)

Welsh (2)

Westrobothnian (2)

Irish (2)

Saterland Frisian (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Gaulish (1)

Polish (1)

Old High German (1)

Russian (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

German Low German (1)

Japanese (1)

Ido (1)

Pennsylvania German (1)

Swahili (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)