Words that come from Proto-Italic “pendō”

400 words across 34 languages descend from Proto-Italic pendō — including peace, dependent, spend, expensive, spending, compensation, pound, perpendicular.

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English (237)

Latin (48)

French (33)

Italian (27)

Middle French (8)

Galician (5)

Dutch (4)

Catalan (3)

Icelandic (3)

Old High German (2)

Chinese (2)

Hungarian (2)

Old Occitan (2)

Venetian (2)

Danish (2)

Esperanto (2)

Russian (1)

Swedish (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Asturian (1)

Mirandese (1)

Irish (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Manx (1)

Welsh (1)

Faroese (1)

Tagalog (1)

Friulian (1)

Basque (1)

Slovene (1)

Hausa (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Tarantino (1)