Words that come from Proto-Italic kawos

274 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Italic kawos — including cave, cavity, cage, cavern, concave, cavernous, cava, gage.

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English (124)

Latin (27)

Italian (22)

French (11)

Spanish (9)

Esperanto (8)

Romanian (8)

Portuguese (8)

Catalan (5)

Old French (5)

Middle English (5)

Ido (4)

Dutch (3)

German (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Middle French (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Galician (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Malay (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Late Latin (2)

Old High German (1)

Asturian (1)

Hungarian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Zulu (1)

Japanese (1)

Macedonian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Ligurian (1)

Middle High German (1)