Words that come from Proto-Indo-European slak-

400 words across 37 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European slak- — including slain, drum, slay, sly, sledge, drummer, drumming, slyly.

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English (73)

Finnish (60)

Dutch (54)

German (51)

Swedish (25)

Norwegian Bokmål (17)

Faroese (15)

Norwegian Nynorsk (13)

Icelandic (11)

Irish (10)

Old Norse (8)

Old English (6)

Serbo-Croatian (6)

Danish (5)

Proto-Germanic (5)

Middle Dutch (4)

Afrikaans (3)

Polish (3)

Old Swedish (3)

Gothic (3)

Yiddish (3)

Scottish Gaelic (3)

Old Dutch (2)

Russian (2)

Westrobothnian (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Low German (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old High German (1)

West Frisian (1)

Old Irish (1)

Manx (1)

Middle High German (1)

Japanese (1)

Korean (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Middle English (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European slak- — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer