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

400 words across 63 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European néwyos — including new, Newman, newer, newborn, Newport, newfound, Newtown, nub.

See the etymology of néwyos itself →

English (150)

Irish (28)

German (19)

Swedish (17)

Dutch (16)

Esperanto (15)

Norwegian Bokmål (15)

Danish (14)

Manx (14)

Norwegian Nynorsk (11)

Icelandic (9)

Welsh (6)

Japanese (5)

Faroese (5)

Westrobothnian (3)

Luxembourgish (3)

French (3)

Breton (3)

Hungarian (3)

Old Norse (3)

Scottish Gaelic (3)

Old Frisian (2)

Russian (2)

Hebrew (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Chinese (2)

Korean (2)

Telugu (2)

Ido (2)

Gothic (2)

Old Irish (2)

Yiddish (2)

Vietnamese (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Slovak (1)

Old High German (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Low German (1)

North Frisian (1)

Albanian (1)

West Frisian (1)

Greek (1)

Norwegian (1)

Lao (1)

Italian (1)

Czech (1)

Marshallese (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Cornish (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Latvian (1)

Dutch Low Saxon (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Proto-Brythonic (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Persian (1)

Portuguese (1)

Old English (1)

Thai (1)