Words that come from Proto-Italic “-ā”

400 words across 21 languages descend from Proto-Italic -ā — including enormous, Alan, opera, enormously, homicide, mitochondrial, Alberta, scribe.

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English (267)

Latin (42)

Italian (26)

French (24)

Swedish (8)

Middle French (5)

Galician (5)

Translingual (5)

Catalan (4)

Old Irish (2)

Asturian (2)

Irish (1)

Faroese (1)

Old High German (1)

Armenian (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Russian (1)

Danish (1)

Dutch (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Ancient Greek (1)