Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “séh₂”

292 words across 72 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European séh₂ — including contamination, tandem, contaminant, contaminate, tanto, decontamination, decontaminate, tandemly.

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English (47)

Latin (29)

Italian (25)

Portuguese (20)

Spanish (16)

French (13)

Dutch (11)

Catalan (7)

Finnish (7)

German (6)

Romanian (6)

Ancient Greek (5)

Galician (5)

Old Portuguese (5)

Indonesian (5)

Tagalog (5)

Russian (4)

Greek (4)

Polish (4)

Middle Dutch (3)

Ido (3)

Old French (3)

Sanskrit (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Irish (2)

Telugu (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Papiamentu (2)

Malay (2)

Bikol Central (2)

Bengali (2)

Old Occitan (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Czech (1)

Middle French (1)

Esperanto (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Fala (1)

Old Irish (1)

Manx (1)

Interlingua (1)

Asturian (1)

Indo-Portuguese (1)

Itelmen (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Norman (1)

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Mauritian Creole (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Byzantine Greek (1)

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