Very few people are aware that the ancient language SANSKRIT is the mother of European languages. English is one such language which owes its parentage to Sanskrit. Many of the words in ENGLISH are derived directly from Sanskrit. The following words ( more than 150) illustrate the relationship between English and Sanskrit. There are many more words which are not included in this list. Similar is the case between Sanskrit, German, latin and French languages.
ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM SANSKRIT
I am = (ayam aham) Path = (path:) Son = (san, santaan, sounu) Daughter = (duhiter) Brother = (bratha) Father = (Pithru) Mother = (Mathru) Devotee, devotion = (devataa) Navigate, navy etc = (navgati, naav) Arm = (armi) Heart = (hridh, hardha, hrithay,) Cow = (gow) Same = (sama:) Dual = (dua) Pariah = ( para:) Cave = (cuva, guha) No, Negative , etc = (Nih, naa) Youth = ( yuva) Yoke = ( yukt) End = (anth) Van , vehicle, wagon = ( vahan) Mind = ( mana:) Map = ( mapa) Mix, mixture = ( mishr, miksh) Mad = (moodha) New = ( nava) Cash = ( kassa) Christ = ( Krishnatha %u2013 Lord of creation- God)) Create = ( from %u2018Kri%u2019 -kriyatah- work, do) Cut = (kart,chhit, kartarii-scissors) Attraction = (accarsion) Man = ( Manav, manush, manu) Name = ( naama) Cone, corner = (cona) Ghory, gory = (ghora) Gate = ( gatih) Door = ( dvaar) Drug = (drav) Destiny = (distha) Divine = (divyan, divi) Inter = (anter) Serve = (seva) Dental = (danta)
RE:ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM SANSKRIT
by shrirang khare on Jul 05, 2007 10:11 PM Permalink
Even the Numbers are bit similar. Two = Dwi Three= Tri(Trihi) Eight = Ashtah Nine= Navam
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by Krishna on Jul 05, 2007 03:38 PM Permalink
Good work Dude! i must say, there would be much more if we explore further.
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by BR Sitaram and Sandhya Sitaram on Jul 05, 2007 05:26 PM Permalink
It is not that English words are derived from Sanskrit, rather, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, etc, come from the same source. These languages are called COGNATE (born from the same source) and from them are derived in turn the languages of the INDO-EUROPEAN family of languages, which includes the languages of North India, Iran and Europe. Some of the 'derivations' given above are suspect, e.g. Christ from Krishnata. It is not enough to compare a word in Sanskrit with one in English; we need to trace the history of the word through Medieval English, Old English and even older languages to be sure that the derivation is correct. For example, Father = Pithru sounds far fetched, till we give the full derivation: Pithru, Pater (Latin), Padre (Spanish), Pere (French), Vater (German), Father. Sitaram
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by Sainath on Jun 23, 2009 06:07 PM Permalink
Sanskrit was derived more than 7000years back. Do you know when latin came into existance ?
RE:ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM SANSKRIT
by Sanjay Rao on Jul 05, 2007 06:30 PM Permalink
Tell me how is it relevent to rediff article. I didn't report "irrelevent" as it was a good compilation. But, please stick to the subject - next time :)
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by Ravindran Ramamurti on Jul 05, 2007 06:47 PM Permalink
It is quite obvious that the writer possibly is not well educated. I wonder why he has not included the hindi word for biscuit ( it is called as biscoot in Hindi) Probably he is not aware that English has borrowed liberally from several languages (this the beauty of English. Is he aware that Jagannath (Orissa) has inspired a word in English. Is he aware that postpone which has been wrongly used by many Indians for years together has finally been recognized as such in English today?
Such supid (though patriotic(sic!) statements are to be avoided in the intellectual circles. balaravi@yahoo.com
RE:ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM SANSKRIT
by pintu pary on Jul 05, 2007 07:48 PM Permalink
Mr. Ravi I know the writer is right. He is writing irrelevant bullshit as per the main topic but his assertion is right. Yes, english has borrowed but it's roots are in sanskrit.
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by Gr on Jul 05, 2007 08:05 PM Permalink
Very good infirmation and should not keepquite without appreciating you
RE:ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM SANSKRIT
by Gr on Jul 05, 2007 08:02 PM Permalink
Very good infirmation and one should not keepquite without appreciating you
