Words that come from Proto-Italic “pāks”

400 words across 49 languages descend from Proto-Italic pāks — including pay, peace, paid, Pacific, paying, taxpayer, payable, unpaid.

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English (154)

Latin (50)

Italian (44)

French (23)

Spanish (14)

Esperanto (12)

Catalan (11)

Portuguese (9)

Irish (8)

Old French (7)

German (7)

Middle French (4)

Ido (4)

Manx (4)

Dutch (3)

Galician (3)

Russian (3)

Swedish (2)

Basque (2)

Albanian (2)

Hungarian (2)

Friulian (2)

Volapük (2)

Romanian (2)

Norman (2)

Chinese (1)

Czech (1)

Slovak (1)

Chavacano (1)

Asturian (1)

Old Irish (1)

Icelandic (1)

Sicilian (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Greek (1)

Lombard (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Venetian (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Ladin (1)

Mirandese (1)

Japanese (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Franco-Provençal (1)

Tok Pisin (1)