Sunday, September 10, 2023

Similarities Between Sanskrit and Lithuanian - sort of a follow up to that book I posted, "The Horse, The Wheel and Language."


Plus Arnika is just full of round faced cuteness, and smiles non-stop.

6 comments:

  1. I only listened for a couple of minutes but notices a lot of these words are also similar to Latin. The word for fire (ignis) and man (vir), for example.

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  2. we're talkin' PIE, friends- fascinating topic. search Grimm's Law as an aside. it wasn't until India was colonized that these bits and pieces became apparent. nice source: https://www.etymonline.com/

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  3. Nice to know, but not that unusual. Heck, Gaelic is similar to drunkin' gibberish

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  4. Yeah, from what I’ve read, Lithuanian is the closest non-dead language to the original PIE. And the Online Etymology Dictionary is a fascinating resource, as mentioned above.

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  5. Lithuanian immigrants sent their kids to "Saturday" school to learn it. It's tough to speak and write.
    Tired of being a farm hand for Russians, Granpa came over in '14 to work the mines in PA. Then off to France courtesy of Uncle Sam.

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