Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “ters-eh₂”

400 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ters-eh₂ — including territory, inter, Mediterranean, territorial, patriotic, terrain, terrace, terrestrial.

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English (141)

Italian (64)

French (63)

Esperanto (23)

Latin (22)

Catalan (18)

Dutch (11)

Galician (9)

Friulian (6)

Danish (4)

Translingual (4)

Asturian (3)

Polish (3)

Old Occitan (2)

Corsican (2)

Dalmatian (2)

Middle French (2)

Swedish (2)

Greek (2)

Ladin (1)

Lombard (1)

Venetian (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Sicilian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Japanese (1)

Istriot (1)

Czech (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Aromanian (1)

Albanian (1)

Hungarian (1)

Russian (1)

Tagalog (1)

Ido (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)