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

335 words across 68 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European wōkʷs — including voice, optical, optic, optics, voicing, voiceless, optically, vociferous.

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English (141)

Italian (23)

Latin (22)

Translingual (22)

French (10)

Spanish (8)

Ancient Greek (6)

Hungarian (5)

Romanian (5)

Esperanto (4)

Japanese (4)

Middle English (4)

Galician (3)

Sicilian (3)

Indonesian (3)

Portuguese (3)

Old French (3)

Malay (3)

Middle French (2)

Sanskrit (2)

Cia-Cia (2)

Greek (2)

Venetian (2)

Friulian (2)

Aromanian (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Thai (2)

Middle Persian (2)

Romansch (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Asturian (1)

Sindhi (1)

Urdu (1)

Turkish (1)

Basque (1)

Tatar (1)

Czech (1)

Catalan (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

Maltese (1)

Istriot (1)

Mirandese (1)

Proto-Indo-Iranian (1)

Garhwali (1)

Cebuano (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)

Persian (1)

Occitan (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Hindi (1)

Ido (1)

Tajik (1)

Norman (1)

Tocharian B (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Ladino (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Proto-Indo-Aryan (1)

Antillean Creole (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Classical Malay (1)

Proto-Tocharian (1)

Words from Proto-Indo-European wōkʷs — 335 descendants | Etymology Explorer