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

71 words across 25 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European swombʰ- — including swamp, swampy, swampland, swamper, backswamp, swampiness, swamplike, swampish.

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English (12)

Faroese (9)

Finnish (8)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

German (4)

Dutch (3)

Icelandic (3)

Old Norse (3)

Old English (3)

Middle High German (3)

Swedish (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Yiddish (2)

Old Frisian (2)

Westrobothnian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Danish (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Middle English (1)

Proto-Finnic (1)

Old Danish (1)

Old High German (1)