Linguistics discussion (split from new factions thread)

[Cyrus]

The word 'brother' comes from the old English(or ålde Englisc) 'broðor'...

Welcome>Wilcume
thee(you)>Þê
sister>sweostor
Hail!>Hal!

no not really, it's a indo-european word, it's found in almost every modern western language, eg. latin frater,anchent greek phrater,italian fratello, and it went in the germanic language and consecuently inglish starting as brohtir, and evolving in modern day brother.

[Viking_Wårlord]

no not really, it's a indo-european word, it's found in almost every modern western language, eg. latin frater,anchent greek phrater,italian fratello, and it went in the germanic language and consecuently inglish starting as brohtir, and evolving in modern day brother.

I was talking about It's germanic form...about indo-european words:
Father(english)>Vater(german)>far(danish)>Pater(latin)>père(french)>padre(spanish)
>पिता/fatir(hindi)>pakir/(Persian/farsi)پدر

[Wausser]

I was talking about It's germanic form...about indo-european words:
Father(english)>Vater(german)>far(danish)>Pater(latin)>père(french)>padre(spanish)
>पिता/fatir(hindi)>pakir/(Persian/farsi)پدر

vader in dutch

[Cartaphilus]

Some interesting links about the Indo-European.

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/

An Indo-European "translator":
http://indo-european.info/2008/01/01...-10-post-wlqo/


Obviously the words you have mentioned are all of Indo-European origin.
They are simple words, and have evolved very little in thousands of years.

[Viking_Wårlord]

Some interesting links about the Indo-European.

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/

An Indo-European "translator":
http://indo-european.info/2008/01/01...-10-post-wlqo/


Obviously the words you have mentioned are all of Indo-European origin.
They are simple words, and have evolved very little in thousands of years.

Though the words I have used are of the most commonly used,indeed, orphans are rare nowadays...

[Viking_Wårlord]

For what's of military terms....here we go:

war>crīgā(gave german 'krieg' and danish 'krig')
fight>skermō(gave the word 'skirmish')
die>dhewə (gave Deyja(old norse))
kill>colḗjō (nothing to explain here)
destroy>dheukō (here neither...)

I also may remind that, there was no 'proto-indo european' as a single dialect but many languages composed this 'proto-indi-european language' hence some words gave latin,others gave slavic,baltic,germanic and so on...

[General Appo]

When did this become The Linguistics Thread?

[ThePianist]

For what's of military terms....here we go:

war>crīgā(gave german 'krieg' and danish 'krig')
fight>skermō(gave the word 'skirmish')
die>dhewə (gave Deyja(old norse))
kill>colḗjō (nothing to explain here)
destroy>dheukō (here neither...)

Fascinating. I add:

war>crīgā(gave german 'krieg' and danish 'krig')
(gave -possibly- 'cri' and 'crier', French "shout", noun and verb)
fight>skermō(gave the word 'skirmish')
die>dhewə (gave Deyja(old norse))
(and this word Deyja -possibly- gave 'déjà', French "already")
kill>colḗjō (nothing to explain here)
(gave -possibly- colère, French "anger")
destroy>dheukō (here neither...)
(gave -possibly- dragon, if you pronounce the "h" like in German)