Words that come from Proto-Indo-European pleh₂k-

400 words across 56 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European pleh₂k- — including complaint, plaintiff, complain, explosion, plausible, plague, applause, explosive.

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English (134)

Latin (48)

French (35)

Italian (34)

Portuguese (10)

Old French (10)

Spanish (9)

Esperanto (8)

Ido (7)

Romanian (7)

Catalan (6)

German (6)

Russian (5)

Serbo-Croatian (5)

Middle French (4)

Hungarian (4)

Albanian (4)

Finnish (4)

Czech (3)

Greek (3)

Georgian (3)

Dutch (3)

Dalmatian (3)

Aromanian (3)

Old Portuguese (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Luxembourgish (2)

Macedonian (2)

Polish (2)

Faroese (2)

Asturian (2)

Japanese (2)

Slovak (1)

Friulian (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Turkish (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Old High German (1)

Slovene (1)

Icelandic (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Sicilian (1)

Danish (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Translingual (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Korean (1)

Gothic (1)

Abkhaz (1)

Yiddish (1)

Galician (1)

Occitan (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Old Norse (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Malay (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European pleh₂k- — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer