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

104 words across 37 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European plówyos — including plough, ploughshare, ploughboy, snowplough, ploughtail, plougheth, ploughable, ploughhorse.

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English (25)

Dutch (19)

German (6)

Middle English (5)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Old High German (3)

West Frisian (2)

Danish (2)

Swedish (2)

Icelandic (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Albanian (2)

Proto-Celtic (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old Norse (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Old Frisian (2)

Slovene (1)

Czech (1)

Slovak (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Russian (1)

Fiji Hindi (1)

Polish (1)

Old Danish (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Japanese (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Old East Slavic (1)

Middle High German (1)