Words that come from Proto-Italic wīs

343 words across 44 languages descend from Proto-Italic wīs — including violence, violent, violation, vengeance, vis, violently, violate, violin.

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English (99)

Latin (44)

Italian (39)

Spanish (26)

French (15)

Portuguese (11)

Catalan (10)

Old French (9)

Romanian (7)

Ido (6)

Serbo-Croatian (6)

Middle French (5)

Esperanto (5)

Middle English (5)

Danish (4)

Irish (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Japanese (3)

Hungarian (3)

Maltese (3)

Ladin (3)

German (3)

Asturian (2)

Galician (2)

Macedonian (2)

Norman (2)

Icelandic (1)

Korean (1)

Polish (1)

Slovene (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Georgian (1)

Aromanian (1)

Mirandese (1)

Zulu (1)

Chinese (1)

Thai (1)

Persian (1)

Faroese (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Tagalog (1)

Late Latin (1)