Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “péth₂r̥”

400 words across 41 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European péth₂r̥ — including pen, feathers, feather, helicopter, pinnacle, pent, feathery, pinion.

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English (187)

Latin (46)

Translingual (30)

French (18)

Dutch (17)

Swedish (14)

Italian (11)

Icelandic (11)

Ancient Greek (8)

Danish (7)

Irish (5)

Albanian (3)

Indonesian (3)

Afrikaans (2)

Galician (2)

Turkish (2)

Old Irish (2)

Welsh (2)

Polish (2)

Japanese (2)

Korean (2)

Faroese (2)

Manx (2)

Cornish (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Middle French (1)

West Frisian (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Czech (1)

Slovene (1)

Hungarian (1)

Friulian (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Macedonian (1)

Sicilian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Latvian (1)

Breton (1)

Greek (1)

Old High German (1)

Aromanian (1)