Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “spend-”

400 words across 63 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European spend- — including response, respond, pound, spouse, correspond, pond, respondent, sponsor.

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English (134)

Latin (52)

Hungarian (43)

French (20)

Italian (20)

Portuguese (8)

Dutch (7)

Irish (7)

Spanish (7)

Old French (7)

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Swedish (4)

Manx (4)

Icelandic (4)

Ido (4)

Scottish Gaelic (4)

Russian (3)

Ancient Greek (3)

Asturian (3)

Catalan (3)

Greek (3)

Friulian (3)

Chinese (2)

Middle Irish (2)

Old Occitan (2)

Esperanto (2)

Danish (2)

Papiamentu (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Finnish (2)

Lower Sorbian (2)

Romanian (2)

Old High German (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Welsh (1)

Galician (1)

Faroese (1)

Tagalog (1)

Slovene (1)

Hausa (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

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Maltese (1)

Armenian (1)

Venetian (1)

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Japanese (1)

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Ladin (1)

Mirandese (1)

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German (1)

Hindi (1)

Swahili (1)

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Persian (1)

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