Words that come from Proto-Italic “pistlā”

400 words across 43 languages descend from Proto-Italic pistlā — including pile, piles, pillar, compilation, pill, compiler, peel, platoon.

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English (155)

French (40)

Latin (39)

Italian (31)

Spanish (17)

Portuguese (15)

Catalan (13)

Old French (9)

Finnish (9)

Dutch (5)

German (5)

Galician (4)

Polish (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Romanian (4)

Middle French (3)

Norman (3)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Middle Dutch (2)

Friulian (2)

Hungarian (2)

Swedish (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Welsh (2)

Yiddish (2)

Russian (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Rade (1)

Turkish (1)

Czech (1)

Indonesian (1)

Venetian (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Ido (1)

Tagalog (1)

Irish (1)

Occitan (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Ladino (1)

Khmer (1)

Middle English (1)