List of English Words derived from Sanskrit via Latin Greek Persian

Sanskrit was oldest language, it is oldest language, and it will remain oldest language. You westerners don’t understand the fact and you try to be superior to all, even though you aren’t. I would tell you 1 thing. You didn’t even have your own money by which you have build your economy. That money and wealth is stolen by you British and europeans from india. Once you all used to be beggars of street, you came to India as beggars and in future you will remain beggar. You will get the result of your this loot from india and other parts of world one day. Be careful, that day will come soon. Haven’t you heard this shlok?

अचोद्यमानानि यथा, पुष्पाणि फलानि च।
स्वं कालं नातिवर्तन्ते, तथा कर्म पुरा कृतम्।

English Translation:
As flowers and fruits are seen at due time and they never violate their time, like same way karma will show their good or bad results. It means everyone must reaps the fruits of his deeds.

Up up up, well-mannered

What about Kabaddi Kabaddi? Is that Sanskrit?

“cow” from Middle English, from Old English, from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European. Cognate with Sanskrit गो (go) – not from Sanskrit (A cognate is a word from the same source that has evolved via a different path. A cousin if you like instead of a child/descendant.)
“mother” from Middle English, from Old English, from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European – not from Sanskrit
“gene” from German, from Ancient Greek, from Proto-Indo-European – not from Sanskrit
“axis” from Latin, from Proto-Italic, from Proto-Indo-European – not from Sanskrit
“eight” from Old English, from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European – not from Sanskrit

Need I go on? I suspect most if not all of these Sanskrit words are cognates, not the sources (or “ancestors”) of the English words. Since English, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit are all PIE languages, it is to be expected that there are a large number of cognates between them.

Arabic is a Semitic language. It is either not related to PIE at all, or the hypothetical common ancestor is too far back to be able to tell. This means words can be borrowed from or into it, but not directly descended from it.

“zero” from French, from Italian, from Medieval Latin, from Arabic صِفْر‎ (ṣifr). Calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya) (Calqued basically means translated, so not from a Sanskrit word, but from a Sanskrit idea/meaning.)

Another example of a calque is the French word “bienvenu” and variants in other Romance languages. They are calqued from words meaning “welcome” in Germanic languages. “bien+venu” = “well+come”.

Pregnant is from sanskrut word prajanan (g=j),paramount/param unnat(परम् उन्नत),buy /व्यय vyay, busy/व्यस्त byast ,municipality/मनुषयपालती,fairy/परी pari, foreign/परगना,advocate/adhivkta ,congress/sanghrsh संघर्ष ,donate/dan दान,

These are words derived from proto Indo European language into Sanskrit as well as into Latin/ Greek/ English.
They are not words derived from Sanskrit.

It is not surprising Sanskrit is mother of all languages.. it is a historical fact that human civilization started in Indus valley in India and Nile valley in Egypt thousands of years before Jesus Christ was born.

Modern times: all commenting in imperfect english about perfect sanskit.

Sanskrit is really amazing language. उत्तमः। समीचीना।

Navam=Nine, astam=Eight, saptam=seven, dasam=ten, dant=dental, Nasra=nostril

Sanskrit word kevat(Boat man) become english word caption.
Sanskrit Kevat > letin caput > english captain

अंत (IPA: ənt) = end

know=gnosis=jna….This is from PIE root *gno- “to know” (source also of Old Persian xšnasatiy “he shall know;” Old Church Slavonic znati, Russian znat “to know;” Latin gnoscere; Greek *gno-, as in gignoskein; Sanskrit jna- “know”). I would also make the case for a connection between the sanskrit words agni and jna,,,as light, which fire is the source of, is always connected with the ability to know or perceive,,,light is often metaphorically used for consciousness. We can easily see the similarity between the words ignite and gnosis and knowledge,,,,

Well, when a real & scientific research which has to do with greeks comes out, I will always spot some jealous & graphic greek commenters who always live by ”fantasies” and ”fairytales”, without the ”real” truth!!

I’m sorry, but you ‘ve just lost the meaning of the article, saying only paranoiac bunkums!!

I’ll do a copy-paste as well…:P

If the root is similiar in two languages doesn’t mean that both of them are ”original”!! The new one derived from the old one… And this goes for every word…

The problem for greeks is one:

Not only most english words comes from sanskrit, but also sanskrit is older than ancient greek and has given many words in ancient greek language…

Wanna live only by ”imaginary” truths as all greeks do for decades?? Does it hurt you?? Makes you feel awful?? Please, try to accept the well-known proved & real facts and DON’T imagine your fake facts!!

I know that truth always hurts beacuse is much more by your own ”fake” truth…

And this goes for some romantic foreigners who obviously don’t know, so they make mistakes & give the right to you staying untutored & carefree!! :P

You haven’t realised yet you will just be the same living like that?? ;-)

And please, don’t ”return” this to me as you always do!! ;-)

You ‘ll never make your country better like that, so you will keep on living by europeans & foreigners, having no native products t? export and living by illusions…

And no, the european civilazation doesn’t totally come from ancient greeks… Just so superficial…

Read books written by honest & impartial people and be real educated…

Your delusional thinking prevents any reasonable approach.

This is exactly the classic original greek crumby way & style of entertainment & writting!!

At your everyday life, they are always argumentative, quarrelsomes & ratbags!!

Beacuse of their sad disablement, they consider this kind of behavior as ”normal”!!! So, if they try to translate their bunkums in English, they will be also heard as silly!!

Just work a bit more and don’t be rapturous…

Please, if you want it too, just have a look on their comments and their ”rest” things which have to do with greece… Almost all of greek people swear you using crude jokes, sexually suggestive comments and vulgar, cowardly assaults… They just write about all foreign girls they come to greece, becoming offensive, insulting and speaking about ”how much foreign women had bedded & foreign girls are… suckers which always sleep around or something”…

They just continuously make fun of you and your country, kidding & humiliating with some tolerant people writing you have stung by their mockery…

BUT, BE CAREFUL, THIS IS NOT A ISOLATED INCIDENT…

IT IS JUST THEIR USUAL & GENERAL WAY OF THINKING…

I’m sure they are gonna tell you I’m a liar in order to persuade you with blarneys or convince you that they are just innocently effusive & welcoming and all those well-known words…Please, don’t believe them at all… This is what they really want…

I dare to say that you just don’t know them clearly… Many tourists see them kinda superficially…

By the way, you must have been known already that all those flung themselves at every tourist girl they met…

They keep on saying that foreign girls are what we say ”free-and-easy”…

You shoudn’t let those consider you as that, because they take liberties with you!!

Even more tragedy than their tragic economy!!!!

At least, I just see many foreign women who realised somehow that they are such stupid & disgracefull…

And generally, all of them, men & women, regardless of age, position, sexual orientation or another category are what we say ”disabled”!!

It’s a fact that all these words describe and represent all those mental ill people of this country!! The only things that ”modern” greeks know to say constantly is about their long lost ancient history (with which they have nothing common for many centuries and just know nothing about itl!!) & their sun (which is one of those few things that has remained to them!!)

You know, stupidity saves them from madness somehow, because they can realised this tragic way of thinking only in part…

And of course both of them have just been ready for them for many decades!!

When they look how modern man has advanced beyond the ancient greeks (thinking of experimental science, the development of mathematics, the art of the renaissance, the great depth and understanding of the relative shallowness of greek philosophy, etc., etc.), they say, “What do you mean—what was wrong with the ancient greeks?”

They continually put their age down and the old age up, until to point out the wonders of the present seems to them to be an unjustified lack of appreciation for the past.

What they are learning in school is to be intimidated into thinking they have fallen so far below their ancestors.

You see, generally greeks had been helpless, hopeless & impractical so, they always learn to leave by other European or not countries!! ;-)

They constantly cling to them!!

Because happened to them being born in a country with climate & ancient history, they have been acting like being the masters of the world, so it’s impossible to live without it!!

You only have to check some mock-tragic profiles of those, so you will understand what I’m talking about!!

But, on the other hand, you don’t need to do that… Only by their profile name and their paranoiac insulting comments, you may have already realised much more things for the real side of them…;-)

I know they kinda wanna justify their existence, so they always try to find a way living by delusions and telling catchy quotes for public consumption and for misery escape!!

They haven’t realised yet that all the rest developed countries have moved more forward!! It’s just an illusion saying that Greece is a developed country!! If you ask many greeks (especially those silly old geezers and wrinklies who don’t know any English word) they will answer you ”What Europe?? I don’t know, blah blah, I want Greece!!”!! But they still stay alive by Europe!! :P

All those accuse the rest Europeans for THEIR INTERTEMPORAL mess, for which THEY are blameful!! Not even their politicians which THEY had been voting all these years insistently!!

They are always against memorandum(!!) but, at the same time, THEY HAD BEEN TRADITIONALLY UNABLE TO PRODUSE THINGS!! THEY JUST PRODUSE NOTHING!!!

This mess’ has been a mixture of a semi-developed and (mostly) developing country!! IN MODERN YEARS, NOT ONLY BEFORE TURKEY SUBJUCATION BUT ALSO NOT LONG AGO ROMANS SUBJUCATION, THERE WAS NOT ANY SENCE & ANY MEANING OF CIVILIZA?ION!!

FOR MANY YEARS, THE PROBLEM OF THIS COUNTRY HAD NOT BEEN ONLY FINANCIAL!!

IT HAD BEEN A SET OF DEEPEST PROBLEMS SUCH AS EDUCATION, CULTURE, MANNERS, BEHAVIOR, WAY OF LIFE AND PERCEPTION OF THINGS!! SO ALL THESE PROBLEMS SOONER & LATER FORMED THE FINANCIAL CRISIS!!

PLEASE, DON’T GET SERIOUSLY THE NEWS ABOUT THE RECENT REFUGEES RESCUE!! THIS IS JUST A ILLUSION FOR GREEKS IN ORDER TO PROOVE THAT THER ARE JUST ”’SO GOOD & CIVILIZED PEOPLE”!! (ARSONS HAVE BEEN AT REFUGEE CAMPS!!)

CIVILIZATION ISN’T ”FRAGMENTARY”!!! AND MANY OTHER COUNTRIES ARE MUCH MORE CIVILIZED & DEMOCRATIC THAN THIS QUARRELSOME…

You must have realised that many greeks living in abroad also maintain this rotten mentality!!

BECAUSE OF THEIR STUPIDITY, MANY GREEKS ARE ADDITIONAL HYPOCRITS, DUPLICITOUS, SOPHOMORIC, LIARS & CHEATS!!

Of course, it’s self-explanatory that every country has got its own sobinists, roosters, losers, dumbasses etc etc!! No offence!! But some countries have all those in higher rates!!

it’s just a pity to observe some foreigners who keep on saying kinda good words for this bankrupt, spoiled & failed country!!

I could justify you, because you are so far away obviously!! You often connect them with sun, holidays and history wrongly!! And this is the trap…

If you had ever learnt the real life & the real behavior in this country, you would have disapointed & you would have changed your mind immediatelly as many many other people all over the world which did the ”crime” and moved to this country!!

All romantic foreigners must stop licking their dirty boots (if they still have got boots to wear!!) and let them rotting away and living like common jungle animals!!

They never realised that they had been living for many many decades in a very huge ”bubble” without substance or seriousness!! Unfortunatelly, the game is over, they bubble has popped and they gonna pay it…

Foreigners are not suckers to pay them for ducking around and being slacking!!!

Because of their hyper-paranoiac belief, they think they are what we say ”upper & best race”!! But this doesn’t change the fact & the truth that they still remain some grungies!! ;-)

P.S. Instead of writing various usual gibberish about their damaged nation or youtube videos, go and find the true meaning of life!!! Don’t blame the other nations or your politicians for YOUR intertemporal mess!! You have always been a mess, still remain the same and they ‘ve got to blame themselves only!!

Of course, they’ve also got too many habitual offenders & molesters in their mess!!

So, they shoudn’t be wussy hypocrites and calm down finally

I very well know that there are many greeks who live abroad and keep on having this kind of miserable & seedy behavior!!

P.S.2 Some people say that ”lazy Greeks” is just a sterotype & a myth!! Hmmm… Well, I think that the truth is in the middle!! I firmly believe that ”hardworking Greeks” is somehow a myth!!

You know what the irony is?? The phrase ”hard working” has been formed by those kinda for a cover!!

All those hypocritic ”working” people in Greece have realised(!!) that they are ”hardworking”, just by 2009(!!) & by the beginning of the crisis, reading a research of OASA… You know, despite their own problems, the most European peoples with fewer hours of work, managed to have a real helpful society, civilized, friendly people, organized with methodicalness etc…

And those hard-working greeks, with the most working hours, are just failed & incapable of anything !! And neither the state (which they have been born), nor the many working hours… Only their low IQ sings!!!

You know, it has been proved that the average IQ level is absolutely connected with productivity!!

While all the rest Europeans outside pay their living, they stay there and do nothing… And when they work, they do produce nothing!!

Even some jobs helping by European subsidies have been failed…

All those years, those hard-workings had been stolen European money, they have just degenerated into corrupt scammers, into rogues & fakes who claime to be workers etc. Their low iq & their education makes them piddly, useless and unable to make just one decent thing!!

Even those who have been measured with high IQ, have ridden the stake!! Not even don’t know how to talk!! Their stupidities far outweigh their sensible acts. Most of them who go abroad, still remain incompetent!! And I realise that every day…

You know, myths & fictions are nices… But, for greeks, it’s well-known all over the world that words never become deeds!! ;-)

They have the most working days but they don’t produce anything and swear the rest europeans who work!! By my side, I realise even at their jobs, they keep on trying not to lose their welfare & well-being!! This ”well-being” purpose had been one of all those many many ”genetic defects” that led them to destruction!!

Moreover, tt’s well-known that greeks always seek until today fortune & money, with an easy & comfortable life only, without problems & at the expense of other people (greek or foreigners)!!

With all these foible, do you believe that takes a long time to tell them sluggards?? I guess this doesn’t need an answer!!

Well, I believe that people of northern countries have an excuse to wait for the summer!! But, do you know what the irony is?? Although greeks have usually sunny days, they always wait for their summer much more than the northern people!!!

I’m sure that they have always loved watching the rest Europeans working, while they make fun of them, living by their money!!

sanskrit is not the oldest but one of the oldest languages. Greek is about as old as sanskrit and they both have similar roots. english borrowing from only sanskrit is a theory not a fact. words could be from greek or sanskrit or PIE, which you mentioned as a follower to sanskrit. It is actually the apparent parent language to both greek and sanskrit.

sanskrit is not the oldest but one of the oldest languages. Greek is about as old as sanskrit and they both have similar roots. english borrowing from only sanskrit is a theory not a fact. words could be from greek or sanskrit or PIE, which you mentioned as a follower to sanskrit. It is actually the apparent parent language to both greek and sanskrit.

kafa cant be sanskrit. it could be kapha instead. no fs or zs in any words of indian origin.

Sir, where could we find the full list of dhatis? i’ve found a dhatukosha and dhatupatha (not sure what the difference is) where the meanings are explained in english, but the dhatus themselves are in devangari script (which i can’t read). I can see how the the dhatupatha would come handy if one wanted to understand a written sanskrit text, but it doesn’t help when one is trying to decipher the meaning of sanskrit names when they are written in latin script. is there a list where both the dhatus and their meanings are written in latin script for us western dummies? (basically, the way you posted the root sanskrit words, but all 2012 of them) Thank you for the interesting and educational articles!

antra = enteron =intestine
eye brow,
prathin = protein

This is a great resource and fascinating display of cultural cross-fertilization. Does anyone know if the word “Krishna” from the Sanskrit “krshnah” can be connected to the word “Christ” via the Latin “christus” and earlier Greek “khristos”?
They sound similar but have such different literal meanings (aside from religious connotations).
Thanks to all

Sanskrit language is known as the mother language of the world.Thanks a lot.

Hi i am from greece. I don’t know Sanskrit but i do know ancient greek. You tell us about latin language. Latin alphabet derives from ancient (greek) Halcideon Alphabet. Every word of latin language derives from ancient greek (doric dialect). Also many of the words of sanskrit derives from ancient doric dialect. For example Mycenaean Greek (ma-te-re), doric greek dialect μάτηρ (mátēr), ionic greek dialect μήτηρ (mitir), Greek: μητέρα (mitéra), , Latin mater, Phrygian matar, Sanskrit mā́tṛ. As you see latin word its the same with ancient doric word and Sanskrit almost the same! So what happened?! Before 7-10 thousands of years a civilization who spokes ancient doric language made colonies to italy, egypt, india,china, japan, polinisia(greek word means many islands), Easter Island, chile and many other places. The spread their ancient doric dialect and their civilization and everything that we know begins. So why they have been forgotten? Ofcourse many thousands of years have passed, but the main problem was that the spartians who spoken the doric language, had lost the war with the athenians. The athenians eradicated every information, book,etc about them. So i believe that before 2500 years this civilization fall forever. The greek language derives from ancient ionic dialect, and thats the reason that we have some differences in pronunciation with the latin language.

The Language of the Harappans: From Akkadian to Sanskrit
This is a book how Sanskrit develloped from Akkadian. Assyrian was a dialect of Akkadian. Of course other words mixed in, but many european words have semitic roots from ancient times.

You may also like to include the word Dev (Deo) (God) which became Theos (G) -> theo,

Dear author, I hope you are still watching the comments on this article. I’m so happy to see you point out the similarities between Sanskrit and European tongues. This, for some reason, gets only scant attention from western readers. I’m willing to wager, however, that you have not a shred of evidence that other Indo-Aryan/Indo-European languages are derived directly or even indirectly from Sanskrit (you’re correct that there’s limited evidence of PIE as well – that is, sadly, the nature of evidence of the ancient and pre-ancient world). Even if there were some body of knowledge to which you could point, it wouldn’t really prove that much, would it? Languages change, often for the worse, sometimes for the better, which is why many people in the north the Subcontinent use Hindi-Urdu as lingua franca. It has been enriched by Sanskrit and Prakrit variants, Dravidian words, Persian and Arabic-via-Persian, English and a host of other influences. I would focus more time embracing Hindi (which gets scoffed at as something impure, as if there ever were a pure language) than clinging to a fabled past.

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NEMSIS2 seems like you are greatly butt hurt by this article. This observation is made by noticing your replies to almost each comment in this comment sections, seems to me the truth hurts…

Yeah…well…you do whatever you like, but stop messing in our turf! You guys wanna boost Indian morale, and by doing so, you’re aiming (or so it seems) to push aside other (AS EQUALY IF NOT MORE ANCIENT TO YOURS) languages in order to achieve that! Well….as actor Bill Murray said back in the 1988 movie “Scrooged”…….”Back off big guy…this might work with the chicks but not with me”!

Rambabu
so many words are there ex. ABDOMEN came from UDARA and MALIGN from MALINYA, EYE from NAYANA etc

Nemesis – Anamika is also composed of three words – 1) a prefix An , meaning not ( as in un in English), 2) Naam as in Name ( same as in Greek Onoma), and 3) a suffix “Ika” meaning with, similar to Greek suffix “ous” meaning having that property. So Sanskrit and ancient Greek are directly and closely related. I would not give too much credence to Western Anthropologists and linguists as they do not get the evidence staring in front of them due to prior wrong focus and training in absence of clear facts. Dhiru

Without doubting the above text in it’s whole, never the less I found it difficult as a Greek, that certain VERY TYPICAL GREEK WORDS such as ANONYMOUS to be of Indian origin! In my country this is a combined word deriving FROM TWO DIFFERENT WORDS…..ANEF (Without) and ONOMA (Name). Automatically we can see that there are two different words and NOT ONE as this text here shows us! Additionally….linguists and anthropologists already proved that words such as these, come DIRECTLY from ancient GREEK language AND NOT derive from foreign influences! That we do have lot’s of hindi words in our vocabulary (such as KIMA = minced meat, or SAHLE = Fool) that is indeed without a doubt, a fact! After all…..they were our territory too (under Alexander the Great of course) once upon a time, and of course influences would be plenty, but there are a ton of words and phrases that are scientifically OURS and NOT THEIRS. Finally let’s not forget that in many occasions WE GREEKS TOO, INFLUENCED THEM WITH OUR LANGUAGE AS WELL, AND NOT ONLY THEM TO US! Such things occasionally do happen, between brothers in a family! And the Indians are our brothers and we are theirs too! Alexander see to it so that we would become as one! God bless him!

I request people who hate sanskrit to learn sanskrit properly and then hate.

This is not new, but what is diplorable is the way the Indians have discarded the sacred language of humanity, that is Sanskrit. It is the language that enjoins in itself the very essence and science of life.

it’s really amazing! thank you everyone to posting similarities in English and Samskrit as well to whom criticizing the same that motivates to dig into more and to find out facts.let us talk about the fact as we know Samskrit is alone non-ambiguous language in the world best suitable for our intelligence,space software with robustness(high accuracy and no failure)2.Samskrit is alone language that has more child languages 3.non comparable best grammar ever.

it’s not matter of whether English is derived from Samskrit or vice verse. going forward what we do we decommission old thing adopt new feasible thing as per to met requirements(easiness,enhancements,etc).

for me it seems English is more modern language designed to met requirement like less vocal effort (so we can speak in less effort more),less alphabet set (so we can represent all the words in less alphabets) and more you guys can add.

we can’t say like “This is whole article is garbage:” what we can do keep post our findings to educate about the facts for this we need to do a lot of research to prove them if it really holds or not then only people will believe, also please post some useful links as well.

i appreciate this post.

common -saman

communist-samuhnisth

commerce-sahmarsh

sweat-swed

cruel-krur

prayer -prarthna ,prar -thna

case -kosh

survey-servexan

shampoo -champoo – champi

folk-lok

ear – k-ear-n,

ape – k-ape

apple -phal (pine-apple,custord-apple -sitafal ,jamfal ….)

automobile -atm-bal

corner -cona

shame-sharm

better-behtar

pedal -paidal

mature – KA-mature

limit-simit

brilliant-birla

enemy -anam

asylum- ashrayam

fertility -faltiti

spectecals -spasht-karas

bubble -bulbule

adore – aadar

dictionary -dixantary

becholar -brahamchari

king -cing -singh

divinity -devniti

abbey -abhay

centre -kendra

intermidiate -antar madhyasth

curriculam -gurukulam

hashband-hastbandh

bondage -bandhan

derm -cherm

surrender -saran-dhar

quote -kahavat

atom -atma

permanent -param anant

paramount -param-unnt

mount -mahaunnt

sir -sri

years -versh

song -sangit

succint -sunkshipt

advocate -adhivakta

dismay -vismay

urgent -urja

unity -uti

duty-dayiti dayitv
settle-santul
news-navaj-navajuni
romance -romanch
municipality -manush-palti,
accept -akshipt
succint-sankshipt
expected-apexit
tree -taru
adore-aadar
preacher-pracharak
commodore-samunder
boat -poat(yudhh poat)
cottage-utaj
magic-maayik,maayavi
music -mousique -mahasukh,mahasukhi
rope-rajju ,rassi
courage -sourge -shaurya
creat/creator/creation -kriya,karya,karta
urgent -urja
night-naktam
court-cot
lady -laad,laadka,ladki,ladi
canto-kaand
gentel-santul ,gentelmen-santulman
profet -prapat (aakash se gira)
news-nyuj
nemesis -naamsesh
ass- ashva
damn-daman
please -prasid
cide-chhid
commune,communist,community -samuh,samuhnisth,samuhnit
path-path
character-charitra,
kennel-swanal
myth -mithya
super -shu.param
long-lamb
decimal-dasamlav
thirst-trushna
foot-paad ,podium,tripod,pedestrian
letter-patra
eat-ati
be-bhav
town,station-sthan
pleasant-prashant
BEHAVIOUR-VYAVHAR
BUY-VYAY
BUSY-VYAST (BUYST)
thirst-trushna
anger -angar
divide- dvi-vidh
ceramic -karabh h,kichad
bathe- baad,baadh
name -naam
understand-antarsthayin
janyuari -gan-rai-ish ,
tragedy -trasdi
stress -trast

I got few more similar words:

Sanskrit English
Charitra Character
Vyevahar Behaviour

This is awesome! Thank you for this list. I have read the dictionary for fun my whole life, (yes, I’m a total word geek) and I’ve always remarked that the Sanskrit words are actually closer to the English words in many cases than what I was always told was the Latin or Greek root. The word rhythm is directly from Sanskrit, for instance. The Germanic word nacht (night) came directly from Sanskrit. Raja and raya are fascinating words. The words for exulted that we would use like “your eminence” for a royal person are related to the words for “light”, which has always made sense to me, as in Holiness, greatness, eminence, like emanating light. The sun God Re or Ra in Egypt is related to the English word “ray” as in ray of light , which is also related to raya and royal. Makes perfect sense to me. These words are ancient — Really ancient. I was told as a little girl that we spoke an Indo-European language but, then I was taught all the Greek and Latin roots, or the French roots of the words when in a surprising number of cases, the Sanskrit words were closer than those. I love this page!

I am anthropologist and have studies this extensively. The author is correct there is absolutely no evidence of a PIE language or people. There is also NO evidence of an “Aryan” invasion in India. There is much archeological evidence in fact that Greeks themselves were descendants of some indian sects.

The indonesian archipelagos also absorbed “millions” of sanskrit vocabs. The sanskrit vocabs i already know help me a lot in memorizing english and french vocabs.

I am astounded by the ignorance in the latest comments. They have no knowledge of the root of Indianism, the very inception of Asiatic Society. It was the Germans who first took interest in the Aryan languages and admitted that Europeans derive their language and culture from a higher source. The English, being the new world rulers, the nuvo riche, couldn’t find the humility in them to admit this. Consequently, they distorted history to suit their own pride. But truth remains that modern day languages like English, French, Spanish, Hindi are impure languages, with a lot of discrepancy in written and spoken forms and absolutely irrational orthographic aberration.
It is not without a reason that we use Greek and Latin in scientific and other works of significance.
While we do not know for sure, which is more ancient Avestan/Hitite or Sanskrit, one should note these languages were very conflicting. The word for deity in Sumer was Asura (Ahura), which is the exact Sanskrit for Anti-God.
So it’ll take a very well read linguist to conclude which among the two languages has more contribution towards European and Indian languages of today.
But there is absolutely no doubt that Greek and Latin came later. The literature of ancient Europe and middle east had little imagination, science and complex terms compared to Sanskrit and Avestan.

But the trend of synthesis, that is forming new words from a common root, that is something the whole world has borrowed from Sanskrit. Without Sanskrit, “Believe” and “Believer” would have been two entirely unrelated words.

It’s hard to put this concept into a western mind, I’ll try this: Suppose you are called Thomas and you have a newborn son whom you want to name Son-of-Thomas, but you cannot, it sounds uncool, even the french de- ones would be kind of uncool. Had you been a Sanskritagna(a person who has a good knowledge of Sanskrit) person you’d have the power to give the child a meaningful one word custom name. And there’d be no need to update a dictionary for that new word. Sanskrit is a code, it’s an ever evolving program.

This is whole article is garbage: the supposed English derivations are related, but not descending from, those supposed Sanskrit ancestors. Just as evolution holds that man diverged from a common ancestor as monkey, but that man did not directly originate from monkeys, all credible linguistic experts who are not motivated by irrational patriotism and nationalism hold that Proto-Indo-European is the ancestor of all Indo-European languages. Therefore, those English and Sanskrit words diverged from a common Proto-Indo-European ancestor, and there is nothing else to be said!

“Calendar” has absolutely nothing to do with “kālayantra.” “Calendar” is related to the Latin “calare” while the Sanskrit “kālayantra” literally means “time machine.

What a load of crap. “The vedas were written in sanskrit” – the vedas were not witten down, they were memorized and then transmitted orally. Just as no one KNOWS how old the vedas are, in the same way no one knows for sure about the existence of PIE. But thanks to certain methods we are able to guess how old the vedas are and suppose the existence of PIE. There were suggestions of how some missing links in the chains of IE languages should sound and upon the actual discovieries the hypotheses were confirmed. It all fits.

gajab research sir

Absolute utter nonsense – the most dangerous form of ignorance is on display here. Avestan, Sanskrit, the European languages, and ancient Hittite et al all derived from Proto-Indo-European. Sanskrit is a relatively new Indo-European language compared to Avestan, HIttite, Sumerian (possibly), Ancient Greek, and Old Iranian, and not to mention the countless Indo-European languages lost to antiquity. Not to mention that the oldest form of Sanskrit is Vedic Sanskrit, which is as far removed from Panini’s Sanskrit as Ancient Greek is from Modern Greek.

Learning samskritam is like the best thing you could do to your life…the science & logic in samskritam is beyond human imagination….Only our rishis could do that…

Sanskrit /Hindi for stone is pather. In Latin /English stone is petrus/ petra/ petrified/

(St) Peter/ rock of the church

The FOUR VEDAS, the origin of all TRUE knowledge, in other words I would say the USER MANUAL of HUMAN RACE. No one can challenge it, if we analyse our sufferrings today I am 100% sure that we have departed from the VEDAS, it’s an open challenge to prove me wrong. As we all say it’s never too late so MANAVE (hey another sanskrit word) back to the VEDAS. Om Shaanti Shaanti Shaanti OM

Even English calender has indian origian. Saptember, October, November and December are representing 7th, 8th, 9th and 10 th month (mass). Westerner used to come India to learn vedic knowledge and tried to copy some methodology. They mistakely create calender of 10 mass ( starting from Unember… december) December is X mass (10th mass) represent for Kirshna mass ( Marshish). In fourteen century, westerner realise the mistake but added 2 months later in name of their great leaders. They added 1 day for few months ( instead of 30 days). Our calender is real natural driven calender.

Its a good artcle.. These days everyday we are talking about relation between sanskrit/indian languages and english/german…

few more from my side ..

Yuyam(sanskrit) – You (E)

Vayam (S) – We (E)

ID/Ithi (S) – It (E)

Thath (S) – That

Nayanam (S) – Eye (E)

Vahaka (S) – Vehicle

Vahana (S) – Wagon

Kaala ( S) – Kill ( E)

(its synonym to Yama, who ends lives. Maha Kaala means Shiva – Master to Yama )

Pitha ( S) – Pittutory

Bandha (S) – Bond

Viewha(S) – View

Also found some interesting Telugu – English

Telupu (Telugu) – Tell (E)

Grasam ( Telugu) – Grass (English)

Nasa ( Telugu) – Noise (E)

There are many more actually, e.g.

Miti (San) – Metry (Eng), as in Trigonometry, Sanskrit would be Trikonaamiti

Trikon (San) – Trigon (Eng), more popularly known as Triangle. Which is consistent with geometrical fact that any closed figure would have as many sides as it has angles

Par (San) means beyond, as in parbramh – Para (Eng) as in paranormal – that what is beyond the established physical laws

Antar (San) means across or between – Inter (Eng) as in International – Between or across nations

Vid (San) means to know, or to see as in Vidvaan (Kwoledgeable, intelligent), Veda (knowledge), in both these cases it is used in the sense of knowing – Video, Visual, Vision (Eng) all derived by transfer through Latin Videre in all these cases it is used in the sense of seeing

Aham (San) means I am – I am (Eng) means the same

Jaggannaath (San) means lord of the world – Juggernaut (Eng)

Manti or Mantrin, a declension of Mantri (San) – Mandarin (Eng, Chi) means administrators, as well as the name of their language

Kroor (San) means cruel – Cruel (Eng)

Samarth (San) means able, capable – Smart (Eng)

Varn (San) means many things like letters, complexion, colour etc. – Varnish (Eng) to colour

There are many, but can’t recollect more.

Old Languages Are The Foundation Of All Modern Languages Therefor Not Giving Them Importance We Show A Weakness In Our Own Educational Background !!

Very well said, by the way Mauritius already passed a law to promote and encourage people to learn and speak Sanskrit http://www.ibtl.in/news/international/1643/mauritius–bill-on-spoken-sanskrit–a-bill-for-spoken-sanskrit-in-its-national-assembly/

Just saw the comment below about the Russian word “Medved” and its link to honey. That struck a chord about the old Celtic name “Medb” (and its modern equivalent Maeve).. Here’s the link to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeve_(Irish_name)

It’s quite interesting that there seems to be a relationship between Russian, Irish and Sanskrit :)

kon=gon
like in octagon,pentagon,decagon..

How about  the sanskrit word mada (illusion, intoxciation) and mad? They are pretty similar in writing and meaning.

thanx
it helped in doing my hhw

 This is an amazing research and a fabulous list of english words with sanskrit origin.  I was surprised to see so many common english words having roots in the ancient sanskrit language of India. We really take so many things in life for so granted. Keep up the good work.

Agni – igneous – ignite

really amazing, thanks for the info

Thanks for the information but i didnt get meanings for winter, dew, morning and so many other words……….can u please help me.

kAlayantra -> Calender
d’armaxEtrA -> democratric

these are those that just came into my mind. There is another blog http://sanskrit-words.blogspot.com/. Take a look at that too.

We have inquiries from various continents regarding the name of continents and Ghandas and rashtras in Sanskrit .If any body know it Please  send a message 

Sanskrit had few more letters than Pali as Greek has than Latin. You should go further, even more interests will come. I have wondered about this since I was young. You get rid the Ghost PIE out from my mind. Thanks.

sanskrit is jewel of the world not just india

sanskrith is the jewel of india

Wonderfullll!!! eally helpful thank you so much!!

The Perfect Language…

..pranaam! Sir! Your list is excellent. I’m also working on a list showing the phonetic slide from Sanskrit into English. Anyone doing the slightest amount of research in this field will quickly discover his/her own mother tongue, his/her own ‘lap’ Bharat varsha) , his/her own soul, divine atma, and his/her own place of rest, Goloka Vrindavana! Jai Sri Radhe!

I being a Indian but now staying out of country, will be showing pride to foreigners to demostrate a project on such information.. Jai Hind

Very nice, amazing. I would like to say something about a comment by ‘ursri’ that the Vedas were not written/created by God but by humans. I have read in a book by Osho that there is a description of a man praying to God in the Vedas. According to Osho, how can God himself write about his devotees praying to him? The Vedas describe human activities, thus they are written by people (human beings). To know about Osho, go to http://www.osho.com . An interesting website: http://www.archaeology.net . The word Upalah/Opal is repeated in the list.(total twice).

Namo Namaha
Great Post.
Would
Dwaaram – Door
Tri – Three, C
Chathur – Four
Sapta -Seven
Ashta – Eight
Nava – Nine
Sagara – Sea
Prithvi – Earth

also come under the same?

vedam => wisdom

the scientific name for pineapple is Ananas Comosus :)

The scientific (Latin) name for Pineapple is Ananas Comosus! :)

Great post and Great discussion.

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Dear Guruji,
Amazing… is all what I can say. I am writing this only for conveying a point. We as Indians find it easy to understand this truth. Most others would find it difficult to accept that anything came from a country that is beneath them (beneath them in their financial eyes). No matter how many times a lie is repeated by the most powerful communities today, a lie is still a lie.
On the other hand, if we as Indians learn,appreciate and practise our language more and more and make it more and more powerful,no force can diminish the light that emancipates from us,cos we are just repeating the truth!.It is sad that when some westerners write books on our sanskrit,we appreciate it. I wish we Indians would state these things on our own.
Who wants their acceptance!.Didnt we tide out time without them? As Indians we should chant these things boldly!Dont feel scared of their ridicule.The bottom line is,if we develop our roots and our financial position, then most of the world will yield(even if we dont want them to yield).
Its all finance based eyes in this world.If india was the richest country,everyone including Indians would have no problem in accepting the truth of Sanskrit.Its a shame,but nevertheless we should always strive and make ourselves more powerful financially and keep learning and practising our culture including the mother of all language Sanskrit until the world either yields or goes for a senseless war…in which case…the universal rule would then apply. Dharma samsthapanarthaya…sambavami yuge yuge!.
Adharma will lose. But for that the Arjuns and Bheems of india need to stand boldly and develop financially and state what they believe in boldly!.We are not lying! y shud we be scared!.Find out more about sanskrit ourselves,practise it more,clean our country and lets together revive our true position in the world!.The world SHALL KNEEL IN RESPECT…NOT FEAR.. AND YIELD.

Dear Gurudev,
You inspire me just the way my Yoga guru at yogashree inspires me. Keep up the good work and step up the gas for an enlightened Maha”Bharata”. I wish learn to spread lost glory about our great country and Hindutva. That way everyone will learn the Hindu way of life of living and learning in harmony with nature fellow human beings. Congratulations on taking the initiative.!
As they say at Yogashree….
Ayshman Bhavatu
Keertiman Bhavatu
Mangalam Bhavatu
Shubham Bhavatu

Dear Dr.Ashwin Sawant,

Points are useful and informative.  But just a correction Reg point 2) Veda’s creation and origin
Vedas are “Apaurusheya”.. not human creation..but God creation.
They are not in writtern form .. they are in “Nada/Shruti” form.
The existing oldest Veda scripts are in Sanskrit language.
 
God shows the benifit of following Vedas to mankind by setting himself as example by Vedas usage.  And the origin is not India but universal…  but been followed and not destroyed only in India.  For eg: There were 108 Sri Ganapathy temples across the world .. like Japan, China, South America etc.  but were destroyed except in India .  India is the place where Hindu dharma and Vedas are “Avicchinna” – can not be destroyed…
Correct any mistakes above.
– ursri

Dear Gurudev,I’m Dr.AshwinSawant,from Mulund,Mumbai. I wish to present some points in ur support:
1.Vindhyas r d latest Azoic rocks of India of pre-Cambrian age which proves India to be a land in the latest Azoic times,somewhere in 70,000,000 and 60,000,000 yrs.
2.Vedas are accepted as most ancient literature in the world
created by mankind,which are doubtlessly Indian in origin.Vedas  do not  mention any place outside India as origin of Creaters Writers of  Vedas.
3.In Vedic Literature Himalaya Mountain is mentioned as “Uttaram Girim(i.e.Northern Mountains)In case creators of Vedas ( & of Sanskrit language) had been foreigners ,they should have called these mountains as Eastern or Southern Mountain.

Gurudev please go through below link if you have not seen it already ….
This is an entirely different/new angle on language Sanskrit itself

http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/sanskrit_exposure.htm
waiting for your comments

Gurudev,
From what I understand, the origins of Sanskrit letter is also very interesting. The work was carried out by Bharatwaj rishi. A bamboo stick was taken and a piece of cloth/bag tied at one end and dust introduced into the bamboo. Each letter was chanted for nearly six hours and this caused the dust particles to align itself as per the letter chanted. Can you please verify this, would it be in in vedic scrpitures under Kalpa shaastra?   

I was seeing discovery channel and suddenly i was shocked when host there told that in Freanch pineapple is called   “Ananas”. Infact “Ananas” is what we/ I call it(pineapple) in marathi.
So from marathi or sanskrit.
sanskrit/Marathi   French
Ananas  <—> Ananas
:):)

sanskrit                   latin/greek                                 english

Ashwa                     Equus                                            Equestrian 
Kramelak               Camelus/kemalos                   Camel
Manthan                Manthanein/Mathema          Mathematics
Yugam                    Jugum                                          Yoke
Ugra                        via german                                  Anger
Chitrkaya                                                                       Cheeta
Janu                        Genu                                              Genuflect
Dhara                      Terra                                             Terra-
Ghas                         via geman                                   Grass

There are many more but I am too tired to type right now

May I add few words to your great compilation?

few more to above list
hruday – heart
mana/manas – mind
anga – organ
gam (verb dhatu- ) – go
garv-arrogance.
.
.
list is endless

Cool compilation…

Thought to add MaxMuller intrepretation of history, geography, language etc etc… motive behind it…
Its difficult to tell and listen truth – blunders in our History(not just India’s)

So this is a wise step towards telling the truth- zara hatke…

Regarding the word ghrtam for ‘ghee’ i would like to add that in the PIE, the root is “ghrein” meaning “to apply, smear or anoint” since anointing or applying ghee was a major use.the greek word “christos” is a descendant of the word “ghrein” meaning “the anointed one”.

ಈನೋ ನಿಮ್ಮ ದಯೆ  – An attempt with the help of quilpad

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Agree with you on this, works by many western scholars are very much appreciable, especially by Stephen Knap. he is fully knowledgeable than we many Indians.
I think Thava’s was a generic statement considering few western criticizing souls. In-fact a considerable fraction of us are troubled/troubling the growth of Sanskrit.

well.it has been a fashion for western scholars and researchers to sideline vedic history and sanskrit..

संस्क्रुतम् एवम् मात्तूर्(षिमोग)ग्रामस्य संबन्ध भवान् जानति किला?

You are right Shabana

i know what pradeeps say and I am happy that whatever i learnt in sixth standard is still retained in my memory is somewhat vaguely … foolish people have five symptoms pride, fowl mouthed,haught tempered,bull headed and arrogant(disrespecting others words).

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डेन् महोदयस्य वादानुवाद् पठित्वा ‘कन्चिन् देशे एकः राजः आसित्” एतत् कथा स्म्रिति मध्ये आगतवन्तः!!!

“मूर्खस्य पंच चिन्हानि ‘गर्वा, दुर्वचनं, क्रोधश्च, द्रिढवादश्च परवाक्येष्वनादरः”

vatika -> vatican :)

It’s true that  Sanskrit is a very ancient language, but I’m going to side with the PIE theorists here.
PIE is the theoretical ancestral mother tongue of humans inhabiting the Euro-Asian continent. It was constructed by linguists with the intention of perhaps displaying the apparent relationship and relatedness of the many languages spoken today in the European continent and the Indian subcontinent. It was not created to be definitive, but as an aid to understanding the evolution of language.
It is proven that the languages of Europe, apart from Basque,  are related. They all are descendants from a common ancestral language. It is also proven that the languages of India are related to those spoken in Europe. They all share a common ancestor and  Sanskrit is amongst them.
Nobody knows what the TRUE ancestral language sounded like –  it’s no longer spoken –  but with PIE we can get a (hopefully) close approximation.
Sanskrit is old, but it’s not as old as the Proto-Indo-European language needs to be to claim to be the true mother tongue.

एतत् ब्ळोग् अत्युत्तमं