Words that come from Proto-West Germanic “*hiʀ”

362 words across 48 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ — including a, as, his, he, an, here, hair, whereas.

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English (118)

German (40)

Finnish (33)

Dutch (31)

Middle English (22)

Vietnamese (22)

Swedish (11)

Old English (8)

Danish (7)

Khiamniungan Naga (7)

Middle Low German (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Afrikaans (3)

Yola (3)

Polish (3)

Middle High German (3)

German Low German (2)

Faroese (2)

Estonian (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Pijin (2)

Spanish (2)

Old High German (2)

Indonesian (2)

Translingual (2)

Icelandic (2)

North Frisian (1)

West Frisian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Japanese (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Jersey Dutch (1)

Pennsylvania German (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Scots (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)

Bavarian (1)

Low German (1)

Esperanto (1)

Swazi (1)

Nigerian Pidgin (1)

Malayalam (1)