Words that come from Proto-Indo-European prēy-

400 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European prēy- — including free, friend, freedom, afraid, friendly, friendship, Free, Frederick.

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English (229)

Swedish (38)

Dutch (30)

Icelandic (12)

Danish (7)

Old Dutch (7)

Luxembourgish (7)

Faroese (6)

Middle Dutch (6)

Italian (6)

French (5)

West Frisian (4)

Russian (4)

Old Frisian (3)

Norwegian (3)

Latin (3)

Japanese (3)

Old High German (2)

Albanian (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Fiji Hindi (2)

Gothic (2)

Polish (2)

Latvian (2)

North Frisian (2)

Frankish (1)

Chinese (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Old Danish (1)

Czech (1)

Lithuanian (1)

Yiddish (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Korean (1)

Esperanto (1)

Welsh (1)

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