Words that come from Proto-Indo-European twerḱ-

271 words across 39 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European twerḱ- — including trunk, sarcasm, sarcophagus, truncation, sarcoidosis, truculent, orgasmic, truncate.

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English (103)

Latin (41)

Italian (20)

French (15)

Spanish (11)

Ancient Greek (9)

Translingual (9)

Greek (6)

Portuguese (5)

Dutch (4)

Esperanto (4)

Proto-Indo-European (4)

Old French (4)

German (3)

Middle English (3)

Late Latin (3)

Galician (2)

Hungarian (2)

Romanian (2)

Vulgar Latin (2)

Albanian (1)

Catalan (1)

Friulian (1)

Japanese (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Korean (1)

Sanskrit (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Danish (1)

Coptic (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Norman (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Ido (1)

Middle High German (1)

Old High German (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European twerḱ- — 271 descendants | Etymology Explorer