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

85 words across 46 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European pers- — including Force, Persephone, foss, prsť, prsť, Περσεφόνη, Persephone, foss.

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Czech (11)

Serbo-Croatian (5)

English (4)

Russian (4)

Proto-Slavic (4)

Proto-Indo-European (4)

Swedish (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Slovak (2)

Latin (2)

Faroese (2)

Breton (2)

Polish (2)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (2)

Old Norse (2)

Ancient Greek (1)

Icelandic (1)

Slovene (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Greek (1)

Danish (1)

Italian (1)

Latvian (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Catalan (1)

Lithuanian (1)

Hungarian (1)

French (1)

Esperanto (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Korean (1)

Old East Slavic (1)

Macedonian (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Belarusian (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Portuguese (1)

Spanish (1)

Finnish (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Romanian (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European pers- — 85 descendants | Etymology Explorer