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

107 words across 31 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European skeg- — including chic, Chicana, chicanery, shackle, chicane, unshackle, unshackling, shackly.

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English (20)

German (16)

Dutch (12)

French (7)

Old English (6)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Swedish (3)

Luxembourgish (3)

Persian (3)

Spanish (3)

Middle Dutch (2)

Esperanto (2)

Yiddish (2)

Westrobothnian (2)

Old Norse (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Scots (2)

Middle English (2)

Old Dutch (2)

Czech (1)

Danish (1)

Russian (1)

Polish (1)

Portuguese (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Limburgish (1)

Finnish (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Middle High German (1)

Old High German (1)