Words that come from Proto-West Germanic -jā

399 words across 55 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic -jā — including merely, mere, log, lodge, lobby, lodging, mare, Whig.

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English (131)

German (72)

French (20)

Esperanto (13)

Russian (12)

Yiddish (10)

Portuguese (10)

Serbo-Croatian (10)

Middle English (9)

Finnish (9)

Italian (8)

Proto-West Germanic (7)

Dutch (5)

Middle Dutch (5)

Old English (5)

West Frisian (4)

Middle French (4)

Old French (4)

Old Dutch (3)

Ido (3)

Scots (3)

Romanian (3)

Saterland Frisian (3)

Middle High German (3)

Latin (2)

Macedonian (2)

North Frisian (2)

Old High German (2)

Japanese (2)

Proto-Slavic (2)

Spanish (2)

Alemannic German (2)

Persian (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Indonesian (2)

Frankish (2)

Old Frisian (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Old East Slavic (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Tetum (1)

Turkish (1)

Slovene (1)

Catalan (1)

Georgian (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Polish (1)

Swedish (1)

Mwani (1)

Limburgish (1)

Kazakh (1)

Hunsrik (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Late Latin (1)

Medieval Latin (1)