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

69 words across 22 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European pōlH- — including fool, foolish, foolishly, fooling, foal, foolproof, foolishest, tomfool.

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English (33)

Middle English (5)

Middle High German (4)

Dutch (3)

German (3)

Albanian (2)

Icelandic (2)

Old High German (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Old Swedish (1)

Gothic (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Old English (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Old Norse (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European pōlH- — 69 descendants | Etymology Explorer