Words that come from Proto-West Germanic skeldu

289 words across 39 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic skeldu — including shelter, shield, windshield, Rothschild, Hochschild, shelterless, shelterwood, Hauschild.

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English (61)

German (59)

Dutch (39)

Old English (14)

Swedish (12)

Norwegian Bokmål (8)

Danish (7)

Middle English (7)

Finnish (7)

Portuguese (7)

Norwegian Nynorsk (6)

Old High German (6)

Spanish (5)

Polish (5)

French (4)

Afrikaans (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Pennsylvania German (4)

Esperanto (3)

Middle Dutch (3)

Japanese (3)

Czech (2)

Estonian (2)

Faroese (2)

Yiddish (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Catalan (1)

Middle High German (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Indonesian (1)

West Frisian (1)

Bavarian (1)

Italian (1)

Malay (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Ternate (1)

Russian (1)