Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “wops-éh₂”

100 words across 46 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European wops-éh₂ — including wasp, Vespa, waspish, waspishly, wasplike, waspy, waspishness, woodwasp.

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English (16)

Italian (8)

Translingual (7)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Old French (4)

Polish (3)

French (3)

Aromanian (3)

Spanish (3)

Middle English (3)

Middle High German (3)

Latin (2)

Catalan (2)

Friulian (2)

Old English (2)

Portuguese (2)

German (2)

Romanian (2)

Proto-Italic (2)

Russian (1)

Sicilian (1)

Slovak (1)

Slovene (1)

Czech (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Galician (1)

Middle French (1)

Asturian (1)

Greek (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Franc-Comtois (1)

Walloon (1)

Upper Sorbian (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Norman (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Old High German (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)