Words that come from Welsh “pen”

55 words across 21 languages descend from Welsh pen — including penguin, pendragon, penguinlike, penguinesque, penguinery, pingvin, pingouin, pinguïn.

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Welsh (14)

English (8)

Hungarian (5)

Danish (3)

Esperanto (3)

German (3)

Finnish (3)

Dutch (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

French (1)

Italian (1)

Japanese (1)

Catalan (1)

Korean (1)

Maltese (1)

Ido (1)

Swedish (1)

Spanish (1)

Romanian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Thai (1)