Words that come from Proto-Italic stringō

400 words across 48 languages descend from Proto-Italic stringō — including stress, district, strict, distress, strictly, constraint, restriction, Detroit.

See the etymology of stringō itself →

English (173)

Latin (59)

Italian (33)

French (18)

Portuguese (14)

Spanish (14)

Old French (10)

Romanian (8)

Catalan (7)

Middle French (5)

Aromanian (4)

Dutch (3)

Friulian (3)

Romansch (3)

Norman (3)

German (3)

Middle English (3)

Icelandic (2)

Ido (2)

Asturian (2)

Japanese (2)

Esperanto (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Danish (1)

Swedish (1)

Cebuano (1)

Hiligaynon (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Chinese (1)

Translingual (1)

Korean (1)

Polish (1)

Russian (1)

Quechua (1)

Venetian (1)

Breton (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Albanian (1)

Ladin (1)

Galician (1)

Istriot (1)

Hungarian (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Scots (1)

Czech (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)