Words that come from Proto-Italic “teksō”

400 words across 42 languages descend from Proto-Italic teksō — including text, tissue, subtle, texture, toilet, textbook, pretext, textile.

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English (174)

Latin (56)

Italian (30)

French (22)

Dutch (12)

Swedish (10)

Esperanto (8)

Danish (7)

Catalan (5)

Friulian (5)

Japanese (5)

Ido (5)

Aromanian (5)

German (5)

Finnish (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Galician (3)

Welsh (3)

Polish (3)

Hungarian (3)

Spanish (3)

Cebuano (2)

Korean (2)

Old French (2)

Norman (2)

Middle French (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Turkish (1)

Macedonian (1)

Greek (1)

Czech (1)

Hebrew (1)

Georgian (1)

Latvian (1)

Faroese (1)

Lithuanian (1)

Portuguese (1)

Middle English (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Romanian (1)

Romansch (1)