Words that come from Proto-West Germanic *speru

337 words across 27 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic *speru — including sphere, Shakespeare, spheres, spear, spherical, Shakespearean, Spear, Spears.

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English (279)

Dutch (11)

Middle English (8)

Italian (4)

Welsh (3)

Old English (3)

Malayalam (3)

Middle Dutch (2)

Russian (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Esperanto (2)

Romanian (2)

Japanese (2)

West Frisian (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Chinese (1)

Persian (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Scots (1)

Spanish (1)

Czech (1)

Indonesian (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Macedonian (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Korean (1)