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

50 words across 20 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European pet- — including fathom, unfathomable, fathomless, unfathomably, fathomable, fathometer, unfathomableness, unfathomability.

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German (15)

English (14)

Albanian (2)

Old English (2)

Middle English (2)

Dutch (1)

Swedish (1)

Icelandic (1)

Faroese (1)

Esperanto (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Scanian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old Norse (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Old High German (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)