Words that come from Proto-West Germanic -g

400 words across 13 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic -g — including silly, thorny, silliness, glitch, wiseacre, sillily, sely, thorniness.

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Esperanto (256)

German (44)

Luxembourgish (36)

English (27)

Danish (11)

Dutch (9)

Swedish (6)

Old High German (3)

Ido (3)

Old Dutch (2)

Middle Dutch (1)

Latvian (1)

Middle High German (1)