Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan

→ English laugh (inherited)

→ Old English hliehhan (inherited)

→ Cimbrian lachan (inherited)

→ German lachen (inherited)

→ German Lache (inherited)

→ Middle Dutch lachen (inherited)

→ Middle English laughen (inherited)

→ Hunsrik Lache (inherited)

→ Low German lachen (inherited)

→ Dutch lachen (inherited)

→ Old Saxon hlahhian (inherited)

→ Yola leeigh (inherited)