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

400 words across 74 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic *kō — including other, cow, cows, kin, cue, kinship, Vancouver, Memphis.

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English (206)

Egyptian (16)

German (13)

Dutch (12)

Polish (12)

Vietnamese (11)

Middle English (8)

Portuguese (7)

Ancient Greek (6)

Latvian (6)

Latin (5)

Spanish (4)

Chinese (3)

Catalan (3)

French (3)

Abenaki (3)

Scots (3)

Old English (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Central Franconian (2)

Maori (2)

Indonesian (2)

Japanese (2)

Turkish (2)

Russian (2)

Irish (2)

Korean (2)

Swedish (2)

Finnish (2)

Coptic (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old French (2)

Old Spanish (2)

Burmese (2)

Cimbrian (2)

West Frisian (1)

Old High German (1)

Slovak (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Proto-Indo-European (1)

Nigerian Pidgin (1)

Aukan (1)

Yiddish (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Chuukese (1)

Proto-Vietic (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Italian (1)

Armenian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

German Low German (1)

North Frisian (1)

Demotic (1)

Hebrew (1)

Cebuano (1)

Estonian (1)

Alemannic German (1)

Pennsylvania German (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Malay (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Middle Welsh (1)

American English (1)

Middle High German (1)

Plautdietsch (1)

Cornish (1)

Marshallese (1)

Translingual (1)

Danish (1)

Unami (1)

Bavarian (1)