Proto-West Germanic Word Roots
The building blocks of English vocabulary. Every root below traces a word back to its Latin, Greek, or older origin — follow a root to see every word that grew from it.
Proto-West Germanic (1006)
*kāsī
1
*kō
1
*kōlijan
1
*kōlēn
1
*kōpijan
1
*lagu
1
*laidijan
1
*laidijandī
1
*laidijārī
1
*laik
1
*laistijan
1
*lak
1
*lam
1
*lamb
1
*land
1
*landamarku
1
*landī
1
*lang
1
*langijan
1
*langiþu
1
*lanu
1
*laskwī̆
1
*lat
1
*laub
1
*laubu
1
*lauk
1
*leugārī
1
*leþr
1
*libbjan
2
*libru
1
*liggjan
1
*likkōn
2
*limpan
1
*limu
1
*lippjō
1
*liʀnungu
1
*liʀnōn
1
*lok
1
*los
1
*losōn
1
*lubu
1
*lubōn
1
*luftu
1
*lustu
1
*lātan
1
*līb
1
*lībalīk
1
*līnā
1
*līnīn
1
*līstā
1
*lį̄ht
1
*lōkōn
1
*lōmō
1
*lūkan
1
*lūtil
1
*magan
1
*mahti
1
*mahtīg
1
*mainijan
1
*maitan
1
*maiʀō
1
*makkjō
1
*manag
1
*managu
1
*mann
1
*marisk
1
*marku
1
*maskā
1
*mati
1
*mattjō
1
*maþō
1
*meltan
1
*melu
1
*meluk
1
*mikil
1
*miskijan
1
*miss
1
*missijan
1
*mistig
1
*mokkijan
1
*morþr
1
*mos
1
*mulīnu
1
*mundi
1
*munik
1
*muntijan
1
*munþ
1
*murgī
1
*mānini dag
1
*mānō
1
*mānōþ
1
*mānōþlīk
1
*mārī
1
*mīliju
1
*mīn
2
*mōd
1