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

160 words across 24 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European préḱs — including prayer, pray, praying, precarious, deprecated, deprecating, precariously, prayerful.

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Latin (49)

English (48)

Italian (16)

French (8)

Old French (6)

Catalan (3)

Spanish (3)

Norman (3)

Portuguese (3)

Middle French (2)

Anglo-Norman (2)

Friulian (2)

Middle English (2)

Late Latin (2)

Vulgar Latin (2)

Old Occitan (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Istriot (1)

Galician (1)

Romanian (1)

German (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Proto-Italic (1)