Words that come from Proto-Indo-European wes-

400 words across 46 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European wes- — including were, wear, wearing, worry, worn, odd, odds, vendor.

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English (189)

French (39)

Latin (39)

Italian (33)

Esperanto (18)

Norwegian (6)

Russian (6)

Ancient Greek (4)

Proto-Indo-European (4)

Galician (4)

Catalan (4)

Friulian (4)

Middle French (3)

Faroese (3)

Icelandic (3)

Aromanian (3)

Frankish (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Danish (2)

Venetian (2)

Dutch (2)

Dalmatian (2)

Sanskrit (2)

Telugu (2)

Swedish (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Asturian (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Albanian (1)

Old High German (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Hungarian (1)

Slovak (1)

Proto-Hellenic (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Georgian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Translingual (1)

Proto-Tocharian (1)

Polish (1)

Greek (1)

Japanese (1)

Istriot (1)