Words that come from Proto-Indo-European wih₁eh₂

400 words across 52 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European wih₁eh₂ — including previous, street, obvious, previously, streets, via, obviously, voyage.

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English (139)

Italian (54)

Latin (41)

French (25)

Esperanto (25)

Dutch (10)

Spanish (10)

Catalan (9)

Irish (7)

Portuguese (7)

Norman (6)

German (6)

Galician (5)

Old French (4)

Middle French (3)

Polish (3)

Danish (3)

Manx (3)

Luxembourgish (3)

Afrikaans (2)

Ido (2)

Tagalog (2)

Old English (2)

Icelandic (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Yoruba (1)

Hausa (1)

Old Irish (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Welsh (1)

Breton (1)

Faroese (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Old Occitan (1)

North Frisian (1)

Latvian (1)

Asturian (1)

Albanian (1)

Japanese (1)

Istriot (1)

Russian (1)

Maori (1)

Megleno-Romanian (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Telugu (1)

Tarantino (1)

Middle English (1)

Occitan (1)

Romanian (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Romansch (1)