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

400 words across 76 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European webʰ- — including wave, waves, web, website, wavelength, weaving, weave, microwave.

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English (174)

Hungarian (19)

Italian (14)

Dutch (13)

Proto-Germanic (9)

Middle English (9)

Swedish (8)

Norwegian Bokmål (8)

Translingual (7)

Danish (6)

Old English (6)

Persian (6)

Spanish (5)

Icelandic (4)

Portuguese (4)

Finnish (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

German (4)

Polish (3)

Russian (3)

Catalan (3)

Old Dutch (3)

French (3)

Macedonian (3)

Aromanian (3)

Yiddish (3)

Hindi (3)

Old Norse (3)

Old Saxon (3)

Ancient Greek (2)

Latin (2)

Japanese (2)

Urdu (2)

Faroese (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Latvian (2)

Greek (2)

Friulian (2)

Korean (2)

Scots (2)

Thai (2)

Romanian (2)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

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Slovene (1)

Czech (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Ukrainian (1)

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Proto-Albanian (1)

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Georgian (1)

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Asturian (1)

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