Words that come from Proto-West Germanic “brekan”
400 words across 50 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic brekan — including break, broken, broke, breakfast, brick, bricks, broker, unbroken.
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English (180)
- break
- broken
- broke
- breakfast
- brick
- bricks
- broker
- unbroken
- breakthrough
- daybreak
- Brick
- brokerage
- breakup
- breakage
- brickwork
- breakwater
- brunch
- heartbreak
- breakpoint
- stockbroker
- unbreakable
- pawnbroker
- breakaway
- breakneck
- bricklayer
- breccia
- redbrick
- breakable
- breaketh
- windbreak
- brickyard
- bricklaying
- briquette
- firebrick
- mudbrick
- brickmaking
- brickworks
- brickbat
- jailbreak
- brickmaker
- firebreak
- brickdust
- unbrokenly
- brickfield
- brock
- breakfastless
- breakdancing
- breakest
- breakfront
- bricky
- breakoff
- shipbroker
- housebreak
- stockbrokerage
- breakdance
- brickish
- bricklike
- breaktime
- breakbeat
- brickie
- lunchbreak
- megabreccia
- unbrokenness
- newsbreak
- brickkiln
- breaky
- prebreakfast
- goldbrick
- Bricktown
- tiebreak
- overbreak
- unbreaking
- brekker
- postbreakup
- breakfaster
- nonbreakable
- breakability
- unbreak
- heartbroke
- inbreak
- rebreak
- unbreakably
- brokership
- breakdancer
- sharebroker
- breakfastcupful
- brokeness
- brokeback
- brickmold
- brickshaped
- minibreak
- goldbricker
- unbreakableness
- bricken
- unbreakability
- breakless
- sunbreak
- bricker
- prebreak
- breakfastcup
- shelfbreak
- brokest
- unbrokered
- breakproof
- brickette
- upbreak
- nightbreak
- breakfasty
- rebrick
- jailbreaker
- brickiness
- breakopen
- pseudobreccia
- crossbreak
- breakableness
- brickwise
- brickmould
- brunchtime
- brickless
- brokerly
- brickhead
- brickman
- microbreak
- underbreak
- breakthru
- unbrick
- brockish
- break wind
- brickfilm
- brickmanship
- brickor mortis
- break the fourth wall
- tunnel broker
- un-break
- bruncher
- breakcore
- brokeass
- deskfast
- breakfastlike
- nanobreak
- broken reed
- debrick
- bebreak
- bio-break
- mini-break
- antibreakage
- breccial
- breccioid
- Xbrick
- biobrick
- bankerage
- windbreaked
- word break
- brunchy
- nanobrick
- borken
- brekkie
- strikebreak
- brickable
- bruncheon
- prebreaker
- beambreak
- blunch
- break-promise
- break-vow
- breakably
- breakback
- breakbeaty
- breakbone
- breakee
- breakers
- breakface
- breakfall
- breakfast-mate
- breakfastlessness
- breakfastwards
- breakfastware
- breakstep
- breakstone
- breakwall
German (68)
- Bruch
- Abbruch
- Brechreiz
- Eisbrecher
- Brecher
- bricht
- Brechzahl
- brechen
- ausbrechen
- abbröckeln
- bröckeln
- Zungenbrecher
- Tagesanbruch
- Anbruch
- einbrechen
- Brikett
- Lichtbrechung
- Brechung
- Einbrecher
- ehebrecherisch
- Ehebrecher
- Einbruch
- abbrechen
- unterbrechen
- Brocken
- anbrechen
- erbrechen
- aufbrechen
- Brechnuss
- Brechungsindex
- Bröckchen
- Schwangerschaftsabbruch
- brechreizerregend
- Bresche
- Brechmittel
- zusammenbrechen
- Gesetzesbrecher
- brëchen
- brocken
- ehebrechen
- durchbrechen
- Unterbrechung
- Abbrecher
- Ausbrecher
- Durchbruch
- Aufbruchstimmung
- Ausbildungsabbrecher
- Herzensbrecher
- Leistungsunterbrechung
- Unterbrechungsauktion
- unterbrechungsfrei
- Volatilitätsunterbrechung
- Wellenbrecher
- Abbrecherin
- Abbrecherquote
- Abbrucharbeiter
- Abbruchbirne
- Abbruchfirma
- Abbruchgenehmigung
- Abbruchhaus
- Abbruchkante
- abbruchreif
- Abbruchunternehmen
- Aufbruch
- Ausbrecherin
- Ausbrecherkönig
- auseinanderbrechen
- Breakball