Words that come from Proto-West Germanic “-ilu”

86 words across 35 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic -ilu — including towel, spindle, spindly, dishtowel, teasel, towelette, multispindle, towelhead.

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English (18)

Middle English (13)

Old English (7)

Dutch (4)

Middle Dutch (3)

Spanish (3)

Proto-West Germanic (3)

Japanese (2)

Italian (2)

Old Dutch (2)

Irish (2)

Old French (2)

Malay (2)

Middle French (2)

French (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Fiji Hindi (1)

Latin (1)

Asturian (1)

Central Melanau (1)

Korean (1)

Russian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Tagalog (1)

German (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Portuguese (1)

Swahili (1)

Taos (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Galician (1)

Frankish (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Middle Low German (1)