Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “tuh₂-ró-s”

265 words across 65 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European tuh₂-ró-s — including butter, bureaucracy, bureaucratic, bureau, bureaucrat, butternut, buttercup, bureaux.

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