Dear Friends

"serpens" probably comes, in all Indo-european languages, from a root SRP meaning "creep".

Yours,

Jacques Huynen

--- On Mon, 3/16/09, gunnargallmo@... <gunnargallmo@...> wrote:
From: gunnargallmo@... <gunnargallmo@...>
Subject: SV: [Pali] English words with Indian origin
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 4:09 PM














http://stores. lulu.com/ gunnargallmo

http://metrobloggen .se/esperanto



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



"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



____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _

Låna pengar utan säkerhet. Jämför vilkor online hos Kelkoo.

http://www.kelkoo. se/c-100390123- lan-utan- sakerhet. html?partnerId= 96915014





























[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]