Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “pleh₂g-”

147 words across 47 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European pleh₂g- — including plague, plagiarism, playa, plagiarist, plaguy, plagiarize, plage, plagal.

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English (29)

Latin (15)

Italian (13)

Spanish (8)

Portuguese (8)

German (7)

French (4)

Albanian (4)

Middle English (4)

Russian (3)

Georgian (3)

Old French (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Old Portuguese (3)

Late Latin (3)

Czech (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Romanian (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Middle High German (2)

Slovak (1)

Catalan (1)

Turkish (1)

Old High German (1)

Slovene (1)

Macedonian (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Middle French (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Aromanian (1)

Gothic (1)

Abkhaz (1)

Yiddish (1)

Dutch (1)

Polish (1)

Icelandic (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Galician (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

Papiamentu (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Welsh (1)

Low German (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Proto-Italic (1)