Words that come from Proto-Indo-European pik-

400 words across 35 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European pik- — including pay, paid, cool, pick, paying, peak, pitch, picking.

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English (296)

Italian (16)

Latin (12)

French (9)

Dutch (7)

Polish (5)

Japanese (5)

Hungarian (5)

Icelandic (4)

Hebrew (4)

Esperanto (4)

Russian (3)

Greek (3)

Swedish (2)

Ancient Greek (2)

Welsh (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Czech (2)

Old Spanish (1)

Basque (1)

Chinese (1)

Irish (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Slovak (1)

Slovene (1)

Catalan (1)

Faroese (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Old Irish (1)

Venetian (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Galician (1)

Translingual (1)