Words that come from Proto-Indo-European swéḱs

400 words across 62 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European swéḱs — including six, sixteen, semester, sixpence, hexagonal, hexadecimal, siesta, hexagon.

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English (205)

Italian (55)

Latin (23)

Catalan (18)

Esperanto (10)

French (7)

Swedish (5)

Ancient Greek (4)

Asturian (4)

Dutch (3)

Icelandic (3)

Faroese (3)

Czech (3)

Danish (2)

Middle French (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Old Dutch (2)

Hungarian (2)

Polish (2)

Manx (2)

Armenian (2)

West Frisian (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Old High German (1)

Russian (1)

Greek (1)

Sicilian (1)

Interlingua (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Aragonese (1)

Crimean Gothic (1)

Galician (1)

Mirandese (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Old Irish (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Yiddish (1)

Welsh (1)

Rohingya (1)

Breton (1)

Slovak (1)

Tagalog (1)

Slovene (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Old Georgian (1)

Georgian (1)

Proto-Kartvelian (1)

Konkani (1)

Polabian (1)

North Frisian (1)

Friulian (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

Istro-Romanian (1)

Kashubian (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Albanian (1)

Gothic (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European swéḱs — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer