Words that come from Proto-Indo-European solh₂wós

400 words across 46 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European solh₂wós — including save, safe, safety, Catholic, salvation, saving, safely, Sally.

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English (243)

Italian (25)

Latin (19)

French (19)

Ancient Greek (8)

Telugu (8)

Albanian (6)

Sanskrit (5)

Translingual (5)

Catalan (4)

Irish (4)

Greek (4)

Old Occitan (3)

Hungarian (3)

Polish (3)

Danish (2)

Turkish (2)

Middle French (2)

Dutch (2)

Marathi (2)

Tagalog (2)

Icelandic (2)

Russian (2)

Georgian (2)

Japanese (2)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Kurdish (1)

Swedish (1)

Cebuano (1)

Arabic (1)

Czech (1)

Slovene (1)

Korean (1)

Galician (1)

Maltese (1)

Urdu (1)

Bislama (1)

Marshallese (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Pali (1)

Bashkir (1)

Faliscan (1)

Ido (1)

Venetian (1)

Faroese (1)