Skin

Werdhom word conservation score = ★★★

English: skin
Danish: skind (infrequent)
Norwegian: skinn (infrequent)
Swedish: skinn (infrequent)
Icelandic: skinn (infrequent)
Proto-Germanicskinþą

English: hide (animal skin)
Dutch: de huid
German: die Haut
Danish: huden
Norwegian: huden
Swedish: huden
Icelandic: húðin
Proto-Germanichūdiz

English: pelt (hair-covered hide)
French: la peau
Spanish: la piel
Portuguese: a pele
Italian: la pelle
Romanian: pielea
Latin: pellis, pellis

Note: the underlined languages have been reconstructed by academics, as there is no archaeological record of the language at that time. 

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