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--- Den mån 2009-03-16 skrev Ong Yong Peng <palismith@...>:


"Dear friends,

on the lighter side, many English words in common use today have roots in Indian languages (plural), given the fact that India used to be a major economic pillar of the British empire. I shall list a few of them:"

You did a couple of mistakes:

* father
* mother

These are common Indo-European stems, perhaps used already in Original Indo-European somewhere north of the Black Sea, and found in Teutonic languages long before England had any contact with India; also in Ancient Greek, in Latin (pater, mater) and in the Romance languages. I don't know about the Celtic, Slavic, Baltic, and Iranian languages.

* serpent

Borrowed from Latin (serpens), probably through French.

Gunnar



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