Words that come from Proto-West Germanic “wai”

61 words across 16 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic wai — including woe, wo, homesick, homesickness, Heimweh, woesome, homesickly, וויי.

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German (19)

English (10)

Middle English (5)

Esperanto (4)

Old High German (4)

Middle High German (4)

Yiddish (3)

Luxembourgish (2)

Old English (2)

Scots (2)

Ido (1)

Danish (1)

Polish (1)

Hungarian (1)

Dutch (1)

Japanese (1)