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

400 words across 29 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European rey- — including real, religious, ready, response, religion, re, reality, reply.

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English (268)

French (29)

Italian (24)

Latin (23)

Middle French (9)

Catalan (5)

Dutch (4)

Esperanto (4)

Icelandic (4)

Galician (3)

Ido (3)

Polish (3)

Arabic (2)

Crimean Tatar (2)

Russian (2)

Asturian (2)

Swedish (1)

Ladin (1)

Danish (1)

Faroese (1)

Czech (1)

Latvian (1)

Slovak (1)

Slovene (1)

Hungarian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Greek (1)