Words that come from Proto-Italic “aktīwos”

400 words across 41 languages descend from Proto-Italic aktīwos — including activity, active, actively, interactive, radiant, activism, activist, activate.

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English (180)

Italian (30)

French (27)

Finnish (22)

German (19)

Latin (17)

Spanish (13)

Portuguese (11)

Catalan (10)

Hungarian (9)

Danish (6)

Dutch (6)

Norwegian Bokmål (5)

Ido (4)

Galician (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Malay (3)

Norman (3)

Middle French (2)

Latvian (2)

Old French (2)

Romanian (2)

Chinese (1)

Translingual (1)

Armenian (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Maltese (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Turkish (1)

Czech (1)

Yiddish (1)

Hebrew (1)

Asturian (1)

Japanese (1)

Korean (1)

Semai (1)

Cebuano (1)

Indonesian (1)

Russian (1)

Albanian (1)

Haitian Creole (1)