Words that come from Proto-West Germanic brūkan

164 words across 27 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic brūkan — including broken, brook, Broken, heartbroken, brokenly, brokenness, brokenhearted, housebroken.

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Danish (65)

English (22)

Norwegian Bokmål (15)

Dutch (13)

Swedish (9)

Old English (5)

Faroese (3)

Russian (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Saterland Frisian (3)

Middle Low German (2)

Finnish (2)

Scots (2)

Middle English (2)

Polabian (2)

Kazakh (2)

West Frisian (1)

Icelandic (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Low German (1)

Armenian (1)

Hausa (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Romanian (1)

Scanian (1)