Words that come from Proto-Indo-European welh₁-

400 words across 41 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European welh₁- — including will, well, wall, willing, welcome, voltage, voluntary, willingness.

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English (278)

Latin (23)

French (16)

Dutch (12)

Italian (10)

Sanskrit (5)

Icelandic (5)

Old High German (4)

Middle French (3)

Middle Dutch (3)

Swedish (2)

West Frisian (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Proto-Celtic (2)

Old Irish (2)

Polish (2)

Irish (2)

Old Occitan (2)

Faroese (2)

Old Dutch (2)

Old Frisian (1)

Danish (1)

Russian (1)

Hungarian (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Asturian (1)

Catalan (1)

Ido (1)

Venetian (1)

Interlingua (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Czech (1)

Welsh (1)

Indonesian (1)

Slovene (1)

Jamtish (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Galician (1)

Burmese (1)

Piedmontese (1)

Istriot (1)