Words that come from Proto-Indo-European sámh₂dʰos

376 words across 55 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European sámh₂dʰos — including sand, sandy, sandstone, quicksand, sandpaper, sanding, sandbox, sandbank.

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English (132)

German (40)

Dutch (36)

Norwegian Nynorsk (22)

Norwegian Bokmål (15)

Italian (12)

Old English (11)

Latin (10)

Catalan (9)

Middle English (9)

Faroese (7)

Icelandic (6)

Japanese (5)

Spanish (5)

Translingual (4)

Albanian (3)

North Frisian (2)

French (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Asturian (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Ottoman Turkish (2)

Turkish (2)

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English (2)

Romagnol (2)

Korean (2)

West Frisian (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Czech (1)

Greek (1)

Swedish (1)

Hungarian (1)

Chinese (1)

Old High German (1)

Papiamentu (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old Norse (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Portuguese (1)

Occitan (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Norman (1)

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Sranan Tongo (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Middle High German (1)

Old Leonese (1)

Silesian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Hunsrik (1)

Tagalog (1)

Polish (1)

Finnish (1)

Bavarian (1)