Proto-West Germanic words by origin
- English
- Latin
- French
- Romanian
- Italian
- Spanish
- Ancient Greek
- Portuguese
- German
- Dutch
- Proto-West Germanic
- Old Norse
- Proto-Germanic
- Old Church Slavonic
- Catalan
- Old English
- Aromanian
- Hungarian
- Old French
- Russian
- Biblical Hebrew
- Albanian
- Bulgarian
- Gothic
- Middle English
- Serbo-Croatian
Where Proto-West Germanic words come from, grouped by source language. A word is listed under every language in its history, so a Latin word that came through French appears under both. More in the Proto-West Germanic statistics.
Most borrowed-from languages
19 of the 458 Proto-West Germanic words in this dictionary (4%) were borrowed from another language. Counted from their entries' etymologies, and updated as entries are added.
- Latin 18 · 4%
- Greek 3 · 1%
A word counts for every language it was taken from along the way, so the shares add up to more than the total. Inherited ancestors such as Old English and reconstructed proto-languages are not counted as borrowings.