Words that come from Proto-Indo-European stéh₂tis

400 words across 56 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European stéh₂tis — including instead, stay, won, stayed, lock, stead, kindergarten, steed.

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English (172)

Dutch (33)

Swedish (28)

Danish (19)

German (18)

Norwegian Bokmål (9)

French (8)

Yiddish (6)

Esperanto (6)

Faroese (6)

Hungarian (6)

Irish (6)

Ancient Greek (5)

Icelandic (5)

Luxembourgish (4)

Middle Dutch (4)

Telugu (4)

Ido (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Latin (3)

Welsh (3)

Italian (3)

Gothic (3)

Old Dutch (2)

Russian (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Polish (2)

Japanese (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old Norse (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Old High German (1)

Greek (1)

Old Frisian (1)

North Frisian (1)

Old Danish (1)

Old Irish (1)

Manx (1)

Armenian (1)

Hawaiian (1)

West Frisian (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Hunsrik (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Middle High German (1)

Czech (1)

Hebrew (1)

German Low German (1)

West Flemish (1)

Indonesian (1)

Finnish (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Pennsylvania German (1)