Words that come from Proto-Italic mātēr

400 words across 52 languages descend from Proto-Italic mātēr — including matter, material, matrix, maternal, materially, materialism, immaterial, maternity.

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English (181)

Latin (36)

French (27)

Italian (25)

Catalan (12)

Ido (9)

Swedish (7)

Portuguese (7)

Spanish (6)

German (6)

Asturian (5)

Hungarian (5)

Polish (4)

Russian (4)

Cebuano (4)

Danish (4)

Finnish (4)

Galician (3)

Aromanian (3)

Old French (3)

Middle French (2)

Dutch (2)

Slovak (2)

Crimean Tatar (2)

Friulian (2)

Tagalog (2)

Sicilian (2)

Irish (2)

Esperanto (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Proto-Slavic (2)

Norman (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Venetian (1)

Ladin (1)

Chavacano (1)

Aragonese (1)

Translingual (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Macedonian (1)

Chamicuro (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Lombard (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Georgian (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Extremaduran (1)

Japanese (1)

Faliscan (1)

Romanian (1)

Romansch (1)

Middle English (1)