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

400 words across 31 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European séksus — including sex, sexual, sexuality, sexually, homosexual, homosexuality, sexy, sexism.

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English (236)

Dutch (35)

Italian (28)

French (22)

Danish (9)

Maltese (8)

Latin (5)

Japanese (5)

Finnish (5)

Turkish (4)

Galician (4)

Hungarian (4)

Catalan (3)

Russian (3)

Hebrew (3)

German (3)

Spanish (3)

Asturian (2)

Tagalog (2)

Armenian (2)

Ido (2)

Cebuano (2)

Portuguese (2)

Slovak (1)

Polish (1)

Indonesian (1)

Icelandic (1)

Korean (1)

Ligurian (1)

Norman (1)

Hindi (1)