Words that come from Proto-Italic serwos

400 words across 53 languages descend from Proto-Italic serwos — including service, serve, servant, serving, desert, deserve, sergeant, dessert.

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English (155)

Latin (39)

French (27)

Italian (23)

Old French (13)

Portuguese (12)

Middle English (12)

Spanish (11)

Romanian (9)

Serbo-Croatian (7)

Dutch (5)

Catalan (5)

Irish (5)

German (5)

Russian (4)

Greek (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Middle French (3)

Hungarian (3)

Japanese (3)

Manx (3)

Late Latin (3)

Danish (2)

Old Spanish (2)

Chinese (2)

Friulian (2)

Basque (2)

Esperanto (2)

Haitian Creole (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Norman (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Middle Dutch (1)

Asturian (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Venetian (1)

Hausa (1)

Swedish (1)

Korean (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Polish (1)

Macedonian (1)

Icelandic (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Persian (1)

Occitan (1)

Hindi (1)

Thai (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)