Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “mod-ōs”

400 words across 27 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European mod-ōs — including model, mode, moderate, modest, modeling, modification, modify, commodity.

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English (241)

Italian (41)

Latin (30)

Hungarian (29)

French (22)

Dutch (9)

Middle French (6)

Turkish (2)

Macedonian (2)

Estonian (1)

Danish (1)

Cebuano (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Galician (1)

Tagalog (1)

Swedish (1)

Old Catalan (1)

Russian (1)

Chavacano (1)

Asturian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Korean (1)

Irish (1)

Faroese (1)

Friulian (1)

Polish (1)

Catalan (1)