Words that come from Proto-Indo-European spéh₁s

400 words across 17 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European spéh₁s — including despair, desperate, desperately, prosperous, speculative, desperation, speculate, prosper.

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English (329)

Latin (24)

Italian (14)

French (7)

Esperanto (7)

Hungarian (4)

Middle French (2)

Asturian (2)

Albanian (2)

Czech (2)

Dutch (1)

Indo-Portuguese (1)

Ido (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Faroese (1)

Volapük (1)

Mirandese (1)