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

105 words across 50 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European wóps — including wasp, Vespa, waspish, waspishly, wasplike, waspy, waspishness, woodwasp.

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English (16)

Italian (8)

Translingual (7)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Old French (4)

Polish (3)

French (3)

Aromanian (3)

Spanish (3)

Middle English (3)

Middle High German (3)

Latin (2)

Catalan (2)

Friulian (2)

Old English (2)

Portuguese (2)

German (2)

Romanian (2)

Proto-Italic (2)

Proto-Indo-European (2)

Russian (1)

Sicilian (1)

Slovak (1)

Slovene (1)

Czech (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Galician (1)

Middle French (1)

Asturian (1)

Greek (1)

Central Kurdish (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Franc-Comtois (1)

Walloon (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Norman (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Proto-Iranian (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Old High German (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)