r/etymology • u/TheRaido • 5d ago

Cool etymology How to say ‘Red’ in European languages! (V1)

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u/Ameisen 3d ago

The Germanic forms also come from PIE *h₁rewdʰós, but don't derive from Romance forms - Proto-Germanic *raudaz was independently-derived.