Words that come from Proto-Indo-European snóygʷʰos

400 words across 58 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European snóygʷʰos — including snow, snowstorm, snowing, snowfall, snowflake, snowmobile, snowman, snowmelt.

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English (114)

Dutch (55)

Norwegian Bokmål (44)

Norwegian Nynorsk (33)

German (24)

Luxembourgish (15)

Icelandic (11)

Swedish (9)

Danish (5)

Russian (5)

Middle Dutch (5)

Czech (5)

Polish (4)

Latvian (4)

Old Norse (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Telugu (3)

Japanese (3)

Old English (3)

Old Dutch (2)

Faroese (2)

Norwegian (2)

Yiddish (2)

French (2)

Westrobothnian (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Thai (2)

Belarusian (2)

Portuguese (2)

Middle English (2)

West Frisian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Slovene (1)

Slovak (1)

Old High German (1)

Latin (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Lithuanian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Gothic (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Dhivehi (1)

Hunsrik (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Finnish (1)

Alemannic German (1)

Pennsylvania German (1)

Plautdietsch (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Limburgish (1)

Scots (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

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Saterland Frisian (1)