Words that come from Proto-Indo-European sug-

400 words across 50 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European sug- — including sucking, suck, suction, soaking, soak, sucker, suckling, liposuction.

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English (128)

Hungarian (44)

Italian (36)

Latin (32)

Spanish (13)

Catalan (11)

German (11)

Dutch (10)

Romanian (9)

Portuguese (9)

French (8)

Middle English (7)

Serbo-Croatian (6)

Norwegian Bokmål (5)

Friulian (4)

Middle Dutch (4)

Proto-Germanic (4)

Old English (4)

Swedish (3)

Icelandic (3)

Old Dutch (3)

Aromanian (3)

Irish (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Dalmatian (2)

Neapolitan (2)

Faroese (2)

Galician (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Sicilian (2)

Venetian (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Yiddish (2)

Norman (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Old Irish (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Asturian (1)

Ido (1)

Danish (1)

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Westrobothnian (1)

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Papiamentu (1)

Classical Latin (1)

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Old Spanish (1)