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

119 words across 35 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European swergʰ- — including sorrow, sorrowless, sorroweth, sorrower, sorrowest, oversorrow, zorg, serg.

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German (18)

Esperanto (11)

English (10)

Dutch (10)

Norwegian Bokmål (6)

Old English (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Middle Dutch (4)

Old Irish (3)

Icelandic (3)

Swedish (3)

Old Dutch (3)

Luxembourgish (3)

Finnish (3)

Proto-Germanic (3)

Faroese (2)

Yiddish (2)

Ido (2)

Danish (2)

Old Norse (2)

Middle English (2)

Saterland Frisian (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

Old High German (2)

Afrikaans (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Gothic (1)

Manx (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Proto-Celtic (1)

Middle High German (1)