Words that come from Proto-Indo-European spel-

261 words across 42 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European spel- — including gospel, spell, spelling, spill, spilling, spelt, spilt, spool.

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English (89)

Middle English (17)

Norwegian Bokmål (13)

Icelandic (12)

Norwegian Nynorsk (11)

German (11)

Dutch (10)

Latvian (9)

Old English (9)

Faroese (7)

Old Norse (6)

Old French (6)

Proto-Germanic (5)

Italian (4)

French (4)

Old High German (4)

Albanian (4)

Old Dutch (4)

Proto-Balto-Slavic (4)

Middle Dutch (3)

Swedish (2)

Frankish (2)

Danish (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Spanish (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Middle High German (2)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Japanese (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Russian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Yiddish (1)

Gothic (1)

Polish (1)

Finnish (1)

Portuguese (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Norman (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)