Words that come from Proto-Semitic wa

320 words across 59 languages descend from Proto-Semitic wa — including flute, lute, fluted, almanac, Algol, flutist, luting, flautist.

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Arabic (124)

English (38)

Italian (12)

Hindi (9)

Spanish (9)

French (8)

Maltese (7)

Portuguese (7)

Persian (7)

Old French (6)

Middle English (5)

Romanian (5)

Georgian (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Old Occitan (3)

Ancient Greek (3)

Catalan (3)

Urdu (3)

Irish (3)

Medieval Latin (3)

Middle French (2)

Aramaic (2)

Slovak (2)

Latin (2)

Danish (2)

Judeo-Arabic (2)

Greek (2)

Hebrew (2)

Turkish (2)

Dutch (2)

Chinese (2)

Punjabi (2)

Swahili (2)

Uyghur (2)

Ottoman Turkish (2)

Norman (2)

Hijazi Arabic (2)

Andalusian Arabic (2)

Middle Low German (1)

Faroese (1)

North Levantine Arabic (1)

Macedonian (1)

Japanese (1)

Hungarian (1)

Egyptian Arabic (1)

Bashkir (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Asturian (1)

Galician (1)

Tajik (1)

Malay (1)

German (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Occitan (1)

Mexican Spanish (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Late Latin (1)