Words that come from Proto-Indo-European pers-

211 words across 46 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European pers- — including force, Force, forcing, workforce, forceful, forcefully, counterforce, forcefulness.

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English (63)

Ukrainian (24)

Polish (18)

Czech (13)

Russian (10)

Swedish (7)

Proto-Slavic (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Bulgarian (5)

Macedonian (4)

Irish (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Proto-Indo-European (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Slovak (2)

Icelandic (2)

Faroese (2)

Old East Slavic (2)

Japanese (2)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (2)

Old Norse (2)

Old Church Slavonic (2)

Middle English (2)

Finnish (2)

Slovene (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Latin (1)

Old Polish (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Pre-Germanic (1)

Belarusian (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Old Russian (1)

Norwegian (1)

Church Slavonic (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Estonian (1)

Tocharian A (1)

Tocharian B (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)

Uyghur (1)

Hittite (1)