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

138 words across 42 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ney- — including neat, neatly, neatness, neaten, neatsfoot, neatherd, neatnik, neato.

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Latin (27)

English (22)

French (10)

Dutch (8)

Norman (6)

Persian (5)

Venetian (3)

Catalan (3)

Spanish (3)

Old French (3)

Romanian (3)

Middle English (3)

Friulian (2)

Italian (2)

Armenian (2)

Russian (2)

Old Irish (2)

Afrikaans (2)

German (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Ottoman Turkish (2)

Middle Persian (2)

Portuguese (2)

Vulgar Latin (2)

Middle French (1)

Urdu (1)

Turkish (1)

Georgian (1)

Middle Armenian (1)

Hungarian (1)

Welsh (1)

Galician (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Proto-Iranian (1)

Old Persian (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)