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

400 words across 57 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European pol- — including Faulkner, befall, Falcon, falcon, Falconer, blindfold, Falkner, falconer.

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German (62)

Icelandic (41)

Dutch (40)

Swedish (27)

English (26)

Norwegian Nynorsk (19)

Norwegian Bokmål (15)

Danish (12)

Middle English (12)

Esperanto (9)

Italian (9)

Old English (9)

French (8)

Old Saxon (8)

Faroese (7)

Low German (6)

Translingual (6)

Middle Dutch (5)

Luxembourgish (5)

Old French (5)

Old Norse (5)

Old High German (4)

Old Dutch (4)

Proto-Germanic (4)

Proto-West Germanic (4)

Middle High German (4)

Welsh (3)

Romansch (3)

Latin (3)

Middle Low German (3)

Old Swedish (2)

North Frisian (2)

Yiddish (2)

Spanish (2)

Westrobothnian (2)

West Frisian (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Asturian (1)

Galician (1)

Irish (1)

Catalan (1)

Middle French (1)

Russian (1)

Friulian (1)

Tagalog (1)

Cimbrian (1)

Scots (1)

Portuguese (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Late Latin (1)

Old Danish (1)

Central Nahuatl (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)