Words that come from Proto-Indo-European sper-

400 words across 30 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European sper- — including spare, spray, spiral, spur, sperm, diaspora, spurious, sporadic.

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English (280)

Italian (24)

Latin (18)

Ancient Greek (12)

French (10)

Translingual (7)

Dutch (7)

Swedish (6)

Hungarian (5)

Greek (4)

Russian (3)

Icelandic (2)

Proto-Indo-European (2)

Middle French (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Irish (2)

Albanian (1)

Danish (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Old High German (1)

Esperanto (1)

Latvian (1)

Frankish (1)

Armenian (1)

Sicilian (1)

Galician (1)

Polish (1)

Venetian (1)

Georgian (1)