Words that come from Proto-Indo-European pow-

289 words across 25 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European pow- — including fucking, fuck, mug, fu, fucker, motherfucker, mugging, mugger.

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English (242)

Armenian (5)

Finnish (4)

Old Armenian (4)

Proto-Indo-European (3)

Old Norse (3)

Swedish (2)

French (2)

Dutch (2)

Welsh (2)

Chinese (2)

Jamtish (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Icelandic (2)

Danish (1)

Hebrew (1)

Irish (1)

Russian (1)

Japanese (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Faroese (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Persian (1)

Middle English (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European pow- — 289 descendants | Etymology Explorer