Words that come from Proto-Indo-European pero-

400 words across 31 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European pero- — including for, first, forbidden, forecast, forbid, forbidding, forecasting, firsthand.

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German (126)

English (101)

Swedish (45)

Dutch (21)

Norwegian Bokmål (11)

Icelandic (10)

Danish (10)

Old English (10)

Yiddish (9)

Middle Low German (5)

Middle English (5)

West Frisian (4)

Middle Dutch (4)

Westrobothnian (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Luxembourgish (3)

Latvian (3)

Esperanto (3)

Proto-Germanic (3)

Old High German (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Old Dutch (2)

Japanese (2)

Gothic (2)

Old Norse (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Afrikaans (1)

Low German (1)

Ido (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Scots (1)