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List words by their origins or roots. Find the etymology, the history and origins or root(s) of any word or name in this dictionary. There are 339 origins available to browse and research

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You can filter words by each root language available on You Go Words!. How many words are available, the consonant and vowel count for each root language.

Consonants and Vowels have Green and Red for greater or lesser values. Green is greater, red is lesser value. Very few languages have more vowels, than consonants.

Origins/RootsHow Many WordsConsonantsVowelsSyllables
Origin/Root Language1695701,419,124820,211737,261
Latin558445,01432,98729,036
Middle English416064,09736,01628,679
French288124,16717,67714,989
Old French191324,82016,51213,827
Ancient Greek173311,0137,1877,171
Middle French110113,6089,6418,308
Old English81110,0894,6683,990
Anglo-Norman4755,9483,9493,306
Italian4272,5891,9631,849
New Latin4242,6241,9051,810
English4163,6422,0711,867
German3902,4871,4441,281
Late Latin3843,4502,4472,258
Spanish3511,8911,5531,386
Medieval Latin2592,6091,9001,728
Old Norse2231,807840728
Dutch1841,461827667
Arabic171806593545
Hebrew112600423383
Russian109571347333
Japanese96355303276
Sanskrit95405286274
Portuguese88493377334
Hindi88373268236
Yiddish69396159156
Irish67355185175
Middle Dutch65862360305
Proto-Germanic60406181166
Persian56294192186
Malay51315198184
Proto-Indo-European47240165151
Scots47371204180
Turkish45174108101
Vulgar Latin43204137124
Scottish Gaelic37220120110
Middle Low German36389159154
Old High German3521810088
Mandarin331339576
Swedish3017810294
Welsh291929794
Old Irish25946547
Afrikaans251418266
Proto-Albanian241055049
Germanic23246117115
Middle High German201887367
Proto-Slavic20703939
Hawaiian19426954
Old Northern French19222123100
Nahuatl1912210086
Norwegian181647566
Old Portuguese18594439
Danish17874339
Greek16905259
Algonquian161096965
Proto-Celtic15452525
Maori15536453
Narragansett13895241
North Germanic131557261
Translingual12554543
Ojibwe121047170
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian11242221
Dharug11664241
Hungarian11513230
Old Dutch10764436
Old Provenal10492423
Swahili10352928
Ukrainian10482728
Celtic10462622
Burmese9361919
Polish9492019
Romani9452222
Akkadian9341919
Urdu9402524
Powhatan9563833
Frankish8452421
Icelandic8633530
Tamil8462529
Old Tupi8312727
Cantonese8473023
Bengali7291818
Classical Nahuatl7272119
Quechua7302521
Proto-Semitic71787
Taino7293328
Slavic7241415
Mongolian7312219
Zulu7232020
Ottoman Turkish7321818
West Frisian7472819
Czech7302122
Thai7322014
Guarana6252421
Cree6382522
Finnish6201814
Serbo-Croatian6292020
Tswana6302019
Romanian5252119
Latvian5161110
Chichewa5231514


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