Words that come from Proto-Indo-European pele-

275 words across 40 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European pele- — including flat, fleet, Fleet, fleeting, flatter, flattery, flaw, flatly.

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English (116)

German (30)

Dutch (13)

Latin (10)

Italian (10)

Finnish (10)

Norwegian Bokmål (9)

Proto-Germanic (8)

Middle English (7)

Norwegian Nynorsk (7)

Icelandic (5)

Old French (5)

Luxembourgish (4)

French (4)

Old Norse (4)

Afrikaans (3)

Spanish (3)

Swedish (2)

Norman (2)

Old English (2)

Middle High German (2)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Danish (1)

Norwegian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Proto-Finnic (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Ingrian (1)

Votic (1)

Middle French (1)

Catalan (1)

Ludian (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Portuguese (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Scots (1)

Frankish (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Old High German (1)