Words that come from Proto-West Germanic *pāl

400 words across 53 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic *pāl — including travel, pale, pool, Poland, pole, traveling, poles, Pole.

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English (221)

French (21)

Italian (21)

Latin (14)

Dutch (14)

Spanish (13)

Catalan (5)

Portuguese (5)

German (5)

Romanian (5)

Middle French (4)

Esperanto (4)

Ido (4)

Tagalog (4)

Old French (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Asturian (3)

Norman (3)

Old Occitan (2)

Japanese (2)

Icelandic (2)

Galician (2)

Faroese (2)

Aromanian (2)

Friulian (2)

Arabic (2)

Cebuano (2)

Middle English (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Swedish (1)

Danish (1)

Chavacano (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Maori (1)

Norwegian (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Palenquero (1)

Volapük (1)

Polish (1)

Indonesian (1)

Chinese (1)

Pali (1)

Burmese (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Thai (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Occitan (1)

Old Norse (1)

Hijazi Arabic (1)

Finnish (1)