The Indo-European Connection

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  • @Langfocus
    @Langfocus  4 роки тому +339

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    • @rosellavitali2991
      @rosellavitali2991 4 роки тому +2

      Hi sir I have just seen you buy I think you're really smart with a big knowledge. However I think there is perhaps a connection between Asia and Europe and the land of both areas was Greece. In fact the people called Aryan People was more an Aryan philosophy than a people.

    • @rosellavitali2991
      @rosellavitali2991 4 роки тому +1

      However to be Aryan isn't to belong Aryan People but it's a personal idea which probably some people (I think proto Italic-Hellenic-Germanic and some Asian people like Hindi but I think also Mongolian and why not Chinese) took and so they have might thought they were the Aryans, so the more warrior people than the local and Pacific civilization

    • @rosellavitali2991
      @rosellavitali2991 4 роки тому +2

      However I know that a typical Asian Nepali name is Raj. It might be the union of Ra+jens so an Aryan name? In fact the meaning of Arya is lord the same of Raj or Maraja. There's the possibility of the existence of a root called Ar which is probably the root for something who's noble. We may considere arheté, àristos, archè (honor- the best and first/power in ancient Greek). You can consider their initial theme: Ra. But it isn't only

    • @rosellavitali2991
      @rosellavitali2991 4 роки тому +1

      But also Raja might be ra+people (consider Gens in latin, but also relative). And I've seen that the initial words of man in greek is anthropos (αν=an+ θρώπος or also αν+ηρ=er). You have to considere the theme an. Like in English we've got man (we've got an at the end) or even Han in Chinese (the same theme in an). It's incredible that human after many time of years is understanding once time we were nearer and even relative, a connection between Europe and Asia is strange but not about language, religion and culture

    • @rosellavitali2991
      @rosellavitali2991 4 роки тому +1

      But finally if we applicare the rhotacis among r/s ( like Ausosa who became Aurora ), you can see that Arya became Asia and also aryan/asian. But also orior oreris (to born in Latin) which is very near to öst (in fact it's mean east in Germanic like Österreich so Austria). The remote area was Asia??

  • @Crichi404
    @Crichi404 4 роки тому +1819

    So basically, it's one big game of Telephone.

    • @markkotulich8401
      @markkotulich8401 4 роки тому +77

      The original game of "Telephone", as different peoples were spread out across large distances and separated by geographical features: mountains, rivers, seas, etc., and there was no technology: telegraph, telephones, radio, tv, satellite, internet, etc. Languages and language families arose as a result of various groups of people being islolated and speaking their languages throughout several millennia.

    • @someguy3766
      @someguy3766 4 роки тому +25

      Zo pasikally, eet's wan big came ov Delefone. Pass it on.

    • @yeetyeet-jb6nc
      @yeetyeet-jb6nc 4 роки тому +13

      @@someguy3766 kello tis is dhepinedly enghlish (grimm's law reversed)

    • @tohmastillstansloona1691
      @tohmastillstansloona1691 4 роки тому +6

      @Marius Spinu I can see what your trying to say but FENG does not stand for wind, instead it is the mountain root and bug root combined, mountain (feng) for sound, and the bug root to show meaning. And what the heck is LIANTZY that is NOT a sound in Chinese maybe you mean Lan Zi (fence) or Lian qi (string together). Also skin in Chinese is not Plele or Plge, whichever one you were refering to. Skin in Chinese is actually Pi. Im also not sure what you mean by Chinese. When I say Chinese I mean Mandarin, but perhaps you may be referring to a dialect of Chinese. Still, they are only dialects of an ancient language. Also the problem with using mandarin to compare to other ancient languages is that Mandarin is a semi-invented language. Sure, it's based of the Beijing dialect but there are still lots of tweaks to make it easier for everyone to speak.

    • @tohmastillstansloona1691
      @tohmastillstansloona1691 4 роки тому +5

      @Marius Spinu Ok, since I can assume that you aren't Chinese because of your name, and the fact that you use google translate (the most reliable translation tool ever that totally works for all language systems and totally gets every single translation right), I can't blame you for falling into this trap. You probably know that Chinese writing is logographic, which means that each word is represented by a different combination of strokes (usually). You also might know that Chinese is tonal (depending on the way you say a word it can mean different things and usually written different ways). Because of this, in written Chinese pinyin (a way of writing Chinese using the latin alphabet) there are a TON of homonyms and homographs. An example is that the word you used, tu(dirt), which is third tone. Keeping it third tone without context, spoken or using pinyin, it could also mean throwup or thorium. Changing the tone could make it mean picture/graph, spit (verb) or color/fill in, among others. So, just because wind and the feng sound in bee sound have the same sound doesn't mean they are the same thing, otherwise, Chinese would be the easiest and simplest but also must confusing language ever. I don't completely disagree with you though. Yes, the fact that the latin word for earth is Tera and the Chinese word for dirt is Tu is obviously connected, but Tu in Chinese, doesn't actually mean THE Earth, like Terra does, it means dirt and other dirty things. The word for Earth is Shi(jie). Then at the end you go off into an irrelevant tangent about latin and English, so I can't comment on that. The facts that Chinese is logographic, tonal, and has lots of homograms/graphs is probably the reason Chinese hasn't switched or possibly might switch to the Latin alphabet, aside from Chinese nationalism. Another thing about Chinese is that there are many old words that are only used as roots now, such as dog (gou) used to be quan. I also would've added Chinese characters but I'm really too lazy to do that. Also I have been referring the written simplified Chinese throughout this whole comment but it really doesn't matter. ok bai

  • @mihanich
    @mihanich 5 років тому +4513

    When I was a kid, I heard the word "Buddha" for the first time and found it funny because I thought it means someone who is awaken from the sleep and is angry, because it reminded me of the Russian word budit' "to wake someone up". How surprizing it was to me to learn in the adult age that it actually means "the awaken one" in Sanskrit and that it's actually related to the russian verb "budit".

    • @Zai_Ji
      @Zai_Ji 5 років тому +326

      mihanich
      In Bengali we use the word Buddhi in reference to wisdom and an awakened mind.

    • @bluesclues132
      @bluesclues132 5 років тому +80

      Budda means old man in hindi/urdu no?

    • @---zx9zf
      @---zx9zf 5 років тому +124

      mihanich And in Persian it’s „Bidar“.

    • @briancooley8777
      @briancooley8777 5 років тому +204

      This is so fucking cool :0

    • @amonraii7273
      @amonraii7273 5 років тому +123

      BTW, in Persian it's 'bidar', which means awake. 'Man bidaram' or 'Man bidar hastam' = I am awake

  • @starprince6341
    @starprince6341 2 роки тому +386

    English - Name
    Hindi - Naam
    Persian - Naam
    Italian - Nome
    German - Name
    Latin - Nomen
    French - Nom
    Spanish - Nombre
    Dutch - Naam
    Frissian - Namme

    • @telmani2624
      @telmani2624 Рік тому +51

      English - doughter
      German - tochter
      Russian - doch (дочь)
      Persian - dokhtar
      English - delete
      Russian - udolit' (уДоЛиТь, Mind consonant wrods (e.g. 'd' 'l' 't') )

    • @werehuman2999
      @werehuman2999 Рік тому +17

      Russian just lost the initial N: Imya (Имя)

    • @Williamatics
      @Williamatics 11 місяців тому +30

      I wonder if Japanese got its word for name (名前;namae) from an Indo-European language?

    • @werehuman2999
      @werehuman2999 11 місяців тому +9

      @@Williamatics I'm shocked! Really? If?

    • @Williamatics
      @Williamatics 11 місяців тому +2

      @@werehuman2999 ?

  • @EstebanJavornik
    @EstebanJavornik 2 роки тому +580

    I am learning Hindi, speaking Argentinian Spanish as my native language… it’s hard to believe that half of the topics don’t require an explanation to me. Even idioms can be translated literally and they have the exact same meaning. I keep feeling like the Matrix is glitching.

    • @user-uc7qb1su4e
      @user-uc7qb1su4e 2 роки тому +6

      @yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg can you tell me more

    • @user-uc7qb1su4e
      @user-uc7qb1su4e 2 роки тому +34

      @yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg Interesting. Did you know in Iranian languages, God is referred to as Asura and demons are referred to as Devi. In Indic languages, God is referred to as Devi and demons are referred to as Asura

    • @user-uc7qb1su4e
      @user-uc7qb1su4e 2 роки тому +14

      @yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg and pre Aryans would be Dravidians, no? They were native to the subcontinent and most likely built the Indus Valley civilization. I’d be interested to see a source about Arya being ordered to wipe them out

    • @kakalimukherjee3297
      @kakalimukherjee3297 2 роки тому +19

      Haha. I'm an Indian Bengali, and I also speak Hindi. I'm learning Spanish now, and a big reason for that is my fascination for Spain and Argentina.

    • @kakalimukherjee3297
      @kakalimukherjee3297 2 роки тому +19

      @yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg I'm an Indian, and the Dravidians weren't killed. They interbred with Aryans in North India. However, their languages were wiped out from North India. Therefore, I have brown skin, but I speak an Aryan language; half of my ancestors were Dravidians.

  • @seeda.6594
    @seeda.6594 3 роки тому +3354

    Amazing how countries as different as *Norway* and *Nepal* speak languages from the same family

    • @seeda.6594
      @seeda.6594 3 роки тому +177

      @@endroholic7161 no offense, dude... I'm Indian myself

    • @exothermicforstability7915
      @exothermicforstability7915 3 роки тому +157

      @@endroholic7161 Now some nepali will abuse India bcoz of your comment.

    • @Paolur
      @Paolur 3 роки тому +65

      Norway and Nepal aren't that different tbh

    • @seeda.6594
      @seeda.6594 3 роки тому +213

      @@Paolur Wut?

    • @vibeuk2003
      @vibeuk2003 3 роки тому +14

      @@endroholic7161 Wow you sounds angry about that LOL

  • @tinylunaticinahugeworld
    @tinylunaticinahugeworld 7 років тому +4487

    This feels like a big family reunion. Let us celebrate together

    • @The51stDivision
      @The51stDivision 7 років тому +184

      Tiny Characters in a Huge World I speak Chinese. I feel left out :(

    • @rinkokonoe8644
      @rinkokonoe8644 7 років тому +77

      The 51st Division chinese is so cool though 哈哈

    • @34cvc
      @34cvc 7 років тому +159

      You chinese and your damn characters! You just couldn't descent from PIE could you?

    • @cicero1178
      @cicero1178 7 років тому +54

      The 51st Division Don't feel left out. Chinese is so unique!

    • @krips22
      @krips22 7 років тому +80

      Well, even if it has nothing to do with the core of China and its language, there were actually Indo-european languages named _Tocharian languages_, a long time ago, in what is now North-western china, in a region called Xinjiang.
      .
      e.g. of common words:
      .
      Tocharian A _ko_ (=cow) - like Danish _ko_, Armenian _kov_, Latvian _govs_, etc…
      Tocharian B _mälk_ (=to milk) - like German _melk_ (-en), Latin _mulg_ (-ere), ancient Greek _amelg_ (-ein), etc…
      Tocharian B _puwar_ (=fire) - like Hittite _pahhuwar_ /_ pahhur_, Umbrian _pir_, ancient Greek _pyr_, English _fire_ etc…
      Tocharian _okso_ (=ox) - like Danish _okse_, Sanskrit _ukṣán_, etc...
      .

  • @chiaranapolitano7605
    @chiaranapolitano7605 2 роки тому +373

    I teach Italian to Indian students, and we've discovered many interesting similarities between our languages over the years. 💙

    • @byron-ih2ge
      @byron-ih2ge 2 роки тому +28

      Sanskrit and latin what share a hell lot i guess

    • @premptemp
      @premptemp 2 роки тому +21

      Not to "Indian students"... you are teaching it to "Hindi students" ...
      Language-tree and citzenship-tree is not 1-1. Currrent "India" has two disjoineted linguistic-trees... Dravidian-tree and IE-tree.
      Why insist on the correct labeling "Hindi students"? That way world can avoid cultural erasure of dravidian language people/culture, that happen to live in same "country" jurisdiction.

    • @chiaranapolitano7605
      @chiaranapolitano7605 2 роки тому +44

      @@premptemp Thank you for your insight. I wrote Indian students, because they come from all over India. Obviously the similarities occur especially between Italian and Hindi, but they often speak other languages, too. :)

    • @chiaranapolitano7605
      @chiaranapolitano7605 2 роки тому +10

      @@chrismathewjoseph1283 Well, I Iive in Europe, so I guess it makes sense for them to want to learn the local language during their study abroad experience. 😉

    • @Aman-qr6wi
      @Aman-qr6wi 2 роки тому

      Indo-european theory is a colonial construct meant to instigate and divide south indians against north indians and make north indians foreigners in their own land.
      Sanskrit is not indo-"european", its an indian language. Hinduism is a native religion and arya means noble.

  • @thegreekchad5066
    @thegreekchad5066 2 роки тому +76

    We are a big family 🇦🇩🇦🇫🇦🇱🇦🇲🇦🇹🇧🇦🇧🇪🇧🇬🇧🇻🇧🇾🇨🇭🇨🇵🇨🇾🇨🇿🇩🇪🇩🇰🇪🇦🇪🇪🇪🇸🇬🇧🇬🇷🇭🇷🇮🇪🇮🇳🇮🇷🇮🇸🇮🇹🇱🇮🇱🇰🇱🇹🇱🇺🇱🇻🇲🇩🇲🇪🇲🇰🇳🇱🇵🇱🇵🇹🇷🇴🇷🇸🇷🇺🇸🇪🇸🇮🇸🇰🇸🇲🇹🇯🇺🇦🇻🇦🇽🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    • @user-rq3rd9iz2e
      @user-rq3rd9iz2e 3 місяці тому +2

      Estonia not Indo-European but in uralic

    • @user-rq3rd9iz2e
      @user-rq3rd9iz2e 3 місяці тому +3

      Forget Pakistan

    • @user-rq3rd9iz2e
      @user-rq3rd9iz2e 3 місяці тому +2

      And Bangladesh

    • @lordbeetrot
      @lordbeetrot Місяць тому

      @@user-rq3rd9iz2eso Uralic is not proto indoeuropean

    • @user-fb1mw2nl3i
      @user-fb1mw2nl3i Місяць тому

      A nonsense idea. Europeans are hellbent on their Euro nationalism and South and Central Asians wouldnt be considered part of any family with Europeans.

  • @BangMaster96
    @BangMaster96 5 років тому +1679

    In Hindi, we say "Tu" meaning"You",
    and i learned that it's the same word in Spanish and French, they also use "Tu".

    • @analog5.56
      @analog5.56 5 років тому +362

      Same in Lithuanian

    • @paske2001
      @paske2001 5 років тому +340

      Same in portuguese..

    • @Remains123
      @Remains123 5 років тому +280

      In spanish
      Tu = your
      Tú = you

    • @bmr2104
      @bmr2104 5 років тому +265

      Same in Persian.

    • @shaolinmonk614
      @shaolinmonk614 5 років тому +277

      In russian - Ты [tɨ]

  • @daakuredpanda5782
    @daakuredpanda5782 3 роки тому +1391

    Just noticed this very strange similarity -
    German : Volks Wagon
    English : Folks Wagon
    Hindi/Sanskrit : Lok Wahan

    • @user-uk8hy3ln1d
      @user-uk8hy3ln1d 3 роки тому +113

      LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! Maine kabhi notice hi nhi kiya

    • @hyruleemblemier
      @hyruleemblemier 3 роки тому +225

      I am sorry but I have to do it...
      It's "Volkswagen" in german not "Volks Wagon"

    • @nathanurinovsky3819
      @nathanurinovsky3819 3 роки тому +47

      I think it should actually be folks wain as Wagon comes from dutch and wain is the original English word

    • @krish14334
      @krish14334 3 роки тому +29

      Sinhala also same sanskrit

    • @firecrackerNJ2CA
      @firecrackerNJ2CA 3 роки тому +36

      Damn I speak Hindi/Bengali... Didn't make this connection

  • @kushagraverma5486
    @kushagraverma5486 3 роки тому +192

    I never saw this friendly comment section in my whole life
    Its like every person on earth sharing brotherhood....

    • @cantubeeducate
      @cantubeeducate 3 роки тому +20

      Literally, we are all brothers and sisters

    • @karlxgustav3336
      @karlxgustav3336 2 роки тому +24

      @yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg and here we have the typical starter of arguments

    • @MrMaverickNw
      @MrMaverickNw 2 роки тому +13

      Not every persons on earth, Indo-Europeans*

    • @kartikpoojari7066
      @kartikpoojari7066 2 роки тому

      But only in comments section...

    • @Aman-qr6wi
      @Aman-qr6wi 2 роки тому

      Indo-european theory is a colonial construct meant to instigate and divide south indians against north indians and make north indians foreigners in their own land.
      Sanskrit is not indo-"european", its an indian language. Hinduism is a native religion and arya means noble.

  • @deepsikhaborah9974
    @deepsikhaborah9974 3 роки тому +256

    I'm Assamese which is from Sanskrit origin... I'm very happy that we all are connected ❤️

    • @uzochiokeke4328
      @uzochiokeke4328 3 роки тому +12

      @@swadhinchakraborty1 love from assam but you stay in bangladesh we dont want you here

    • @spacedas915
      @spacedas915 3 роки тому +11

      @@swadhinchakraborty1 Love from Assam.

    • @jugaranjannath5490
      @jugaranjannath5490 2 роки тому +26

      The eastern most Indo-European language is Assamese

    • @Yuvraj948
      @Yuvraj948 2 роки тому +10

      @@swadhinchakraborty1 Assam has like more than 30% Muslims. If we were to hate Muslims then there wouldn’t be such a large population of Muslims here. Just learn some Assamese if you plan to visit Assam. Assamese people love when a foreigner speaks their language. It just shows that you have respect for Assamese people and Assamese culture

    • @swadhinchakraborty1
      @swadhinchakraborty1 2 роки тому +3

      @@Yuvraj948 I want to learn Assamese. Is there any way to learn Assamese ?

  • @Ida-xe8pg
    @Ida-xe8pg 4 роки тому +959

    The word for "Door" in IE languages
    English - Door
    German - Tür
    Dutch - Deur (Dör)
    Danish - Dør (Dör)
    Icelandic - Dyr (Dir)
    Czech - Dveře
    Lithuanian - Durys (Duris)
    Russian - Дверь (Dver' )
    Armenian - դուռ (dur)
    Albanian - Derë (Deruh)
    Welsh - Drws (Drus)
    Farsi - در (Dar)
    Kurdish - دەرگا(Darga)
    Hindi - द्वार (Dwaar)
    Sinhala - දොර (Dora)
    Greek - Θύρα (Thira)
    PIE - dʰwṓr
    Greek one is explainable the second /i/ is an upsilon and its pronounciation went from */u/ > */y/ > /i/ and im not sure whether Greek ever had a /dʱ/ but there was a */dʱ/ in PIE and then it became devoiced in Ancient Greek */tʰ/ and as recently as 1000 CE it became /θ/ so it wouldve been pronounced as /dʱura/ in the the old days
    Italic Porta is cognate with the English Portal

    • @sedrek184
      @sedrek184 4 роки тому +50

      @Barxudan zhyana
      we say (derî) in kurmancî kurdish

    • @Slugawielkiegobrata
      @Slugawielkiegobrata 4 роки тому +58

      Tajik - Dar

    • @Daniel-vj9oq
      @Daniel-vj9oq 4 роки тому +61

      Irish - Doras

    • @_Killkor
      @_Killkor 3 роки тому +32

      Then, there's Polish:
      Drzwi (dřvi) [d'zhvee]

    • @Ida-xe8pg
      @Ida-xe8pg 3 роки тому +16

      @Patrick Langlois No /p/ is a voiceless bilabial stop (made with ur lips) and /d/ is a voiced alveolar stop (made behind ur teeth)

  • @learningwithjosh9605
    @learningwithjosh9605 4 роки тому +371

    Sanskrit : path
    English : path

    • @susantadeb7666
      @susantadeb7666 3 роки тому +57

      Nose in English is NASA in Sanskrit.

    • @hliask903
      @hliask903 3 роки тому +29

      @@susantadeb7666 and nasus in Latin.

    • @zanzan2738
      @zanzan2738 3 роки тому +25

      On slavic it will be "poot'" (path) and "nos" (nose))

    • @pentelegomenon1175
      @pentelegomenon1175 3 роки тому +5

      @Leonhard Samac So the moon landing is fake?

    • @funfoxvlad7309
      @funfoxvlad7309 3 роки тому +6

      @@susantadeb7666 its simmilar to Romanian :Nas

  • @rajanbabupanta1393
    @rajanbabupanta1393 3 роки тому +43

    Hand ::::::
    In English : Hand
    In hindi : हाथ (Haath)
    In Nepali : हात (Haat)
    In sanskrit : हस्त (Hasta)
    Path :::::::
    In english : Path (it means way or route)
    In sanskrit : पथ (Path which means way)
    Nose (Nepali- Naak)
    Eye (Nepali - Aankha)
    Name ( Nepali - naam) etc.

    • @Alexandruu450
      @Alexandruu450 3 дні тому

      100% Nepali is closer to English than neighboring Sino-Tibetan languages

  • @faridjafari6356
    @faridjafari6356 2 роки тому +118

    I am Iranian and I speak Persian. You say in English: father, brother, mother and daughter. We say in Persian: pedar, baradar, madar and dokhtar. You say in English: cow, horse and dog. We say in Persian: gav, asb and sag. You say paradise and we say pardis. The word bar meaning carrying which you mentioned in the start of your video in Persian means "load". In Persian the word sotun means column which is very similar to the English word of stone (in old times columns were carved of stone). The word for man in Persian is MARD which has a common root with the Persian word of MARG which means death, therefor the word Mard must be related to the English word of Murder (maybe because men die and get killed more than women). In persian we name GOD as KHODA. In English you say door and in persian we say "darb" or "dar".

    • @kimberlyperrotis8962
      @kimberlyperrotis8962 2 роки тому +26

      “Paradise” is a Persian origin word, of course. The Ancient Persians invented the concept of a paradise: a peaceful, walled garden with flowers, shrubs and small trees, beautiful tiles and water features, etc. We all still try to build a Persian Paradise everywhere!

    • @meeeeeeeeeeee
      @meeeeeeeeeeee Рік тому +3

      Another similarity is "bad" in Persian. Supposedly it's unrelated to the English word.

    • @faridjafari6356
      @faridjafari6356 Рік тому +5

      @@meeeeeeeeeeee It is related and both mean Bad and both are the same word

    • @simontollin2004
      @simontollin2004 Рік тому

      Pedar - fader
      Baradar - broder
      Madar - moder
      Dokhtar - dotter
      Gav - ko
      Asp - häst
      Sag - hund
      Pardis - paradis
      Marg (death) - mord (murder)
      Darb/dar - dörr
      Khoda - gud
      Compare also:
      Hesp - häst
      Rêvî - räv

    • @Rohan_Chaudhary2000
      @Rohan_Chaudhary2000 Рік тому +10

      In Sanskrit ,cow is Gau, horse is aswah,brother is brahtah,mother is matah, father is pitah...

  • @timmehh9036
    @timmehh9036 7 років тому +3268

    Sanskrit - Lithuanian
    agnis - ugnis ( fire )
    vajus - vėjas ( wind )
    devas - dievas ( god )
    navyas - naujas ( new )
    aśru - ašara ( tear )
    madhu - medus ( honey )

    • @bleedblue1778
      @bleedblue1778 7 років тому +339

      Tim van Alstede Lithuanian is probably the nearest language to PIE

    • @lauvzane
      @lauvzane 7 років тому +373

      Sanskrit-Lithuanian-Latvian
      Agnis-ugnis-uguns
      vajus-vejas-vējš
      devas-dievas-dievs
      vavyas-naujas-jauns
      ašru-ašara-asara
      madhu-medus-medus

    • @EllieK_814
      @EllieK_814 7 років тому +350

      Sanskrit - Lithuanian - Latin
      agnis - ugnis - ignis
      vajus - vėjas - ventus
      devas - dievas - deus
      navyas - naujas - novus
      aśru - ašara - lacrima (there's the c/s thing again!)
      madhu - medus - mel

    • @DuchAmagi
      @DuchAmagi 7 років тому +255

      Sanskrit - Lithuanian - Polish
      agnis - ugnis - ogień ( fire )
      vajus - vėjas - wiatr ( wind )
      devas - dievas - bóg ( god ) [that looks different]
      navyas - naujas - nowy ( new )
      aśru - ašara - łza ( tear ) [that too]
      madhu - medus - miód ( honey )

    • @ramses3445
      @ramses3445 7 років тому +101

      And in Croatian there is Med for honey, and miel for honey in French, and here come the Dutch with their Honing :P

  • @ehsant5974
    @ehsant5974 4 роки тому +1481

    Persian: Maadar
    English: Mother
    See my American cousins? We Iranians and Americans are connected no need to start a war.

    • @malster1239
      @malster1239 4 роки тому +95

      Here other example of my language and Spanish:
      Portuguese/Spanish=Mãe/Madre,from Latin=Mater

    • @pushpendranhr
      @pushpendranhr 4 роки тому +139

      In Sanskrit its'matri'
      Hello brother

    • @donbernardo3301
      @donbernardo3301 4 роки тому +62

      USA never attacked a country with McDonalds. Do you have McDonalds in Iran;)?

    • @mikem820
      @mikem820 4 роки тому +18

      Ehsan Taheri yeah but unfortunately you guys are walking all over our oil... sorry 😐

    • @fulger2010
      @fulger2010 4 роки тому +39

      @@donbernardo3301 US attacked Yugoslavia which had Mcdonalds, and now wants to attack Russia which has tons of Mcdonalds.

  • @00MSG
    @00MSG 2 роки тому +44

    Man I wish this this was longer. A prolonged version would be great, there is so much you can talk about

  • @thicclegendfeep4050
    @thicclegendfeep4050 2 роки тому +55

    Who would have thought that so many people who thought themselves worlds apart would share such rich connection, and long before it could have ever been documented as well. It's so fascinating how things like archeology, genetics, and language is now allowing us to learn history we could have never known of before

    • @Aman-qr6wi
      @Aman-qr6wi 2 роки тому

      Indo-european theory is a colonial construct meant to instigate and divide south indians against north indians and make north indians foreigners in their own land.
      Sanskrit is not indo-"european", its an indian language. Hinduism is a native religion and arya means noble.

  • @Raj_9507_
    @Raj_9507_ 4 роки тому +839

    Sanskrit : ghass
    English :grass
    Sanskrit : Dwar
    English : Door
    Sanskrit : Madhyam
    English : Medium
    And many other words.....

    • @didonegiuliano3547
      @didonegiuliano3547 3 роки тому +41

      medium comes from Latin so

    • @basedperson1409
      @basedperson1409 3 роки тому +46

      @@didonegiuliano3547 still

    • @lllLoko
      @lllLoko 3 роки тому +154

      @@didonegiuliano3547 “medium comes from Latin” did you even watch the video?

    • @stuckonautomatic
      @stuckonautomatic 3 роки тому +153

      @@didonegiuliano3547 Latin is indo-european, so

    • @leedee22z8
      @leedee22z8 3 роки тому +42

      ghaas and madhyam are hindi words too .. damn
      door in hindi is 'darwaza'

  • @bassiroucamara5711
    @bassiroucamara5711 6 років тому +443

    Can we get a part two? As a language lover, this feels like a family reunion

    • @essennagerry
      @essennagerry 5 років тому +13

      A family reunion, hehe :D

    • @essennagerry
      @essennagerry 5 років тому +1

      Ohlala du bist ein Pfannkuchenwissenschaftler! Teach me, senpai. I want to make pancakes great again.

    • @zak.886
      @zak.886 5 років тому

      essennagerry what is senpai?

    • @essennagerry
      @essennagerry 5 років тому +4

      @@zak.886 it means teacher in Japanese :)

    • @zak.886
      @zak.886 5 років тому +3

      essennagerry isn't it sensei, it is sensei, it has to be sensei

  • @mattlawyer3245
    @mattlawyer3245 2 роки тому +37

    When I first began learning Russian, the first thing I noticed was the similarity its conjugations and pronouns have to latin-based languages.

    • @rameshraghothama8324
      @rameshraghothama8324 Рік тому +4

      Slavic languages bridge a wide gap between Indo-Iranian and Italic languages.

  • @kepler215
    @kepler215 2 роки тому +48

    As an Azerbaijani Talysh person my native language is Indo-European too.But nowadays our language is getting forgotten and government does nothing to save our culture.Very sad...
    Thank you for this video! It was good to felt a part of a big family 🤩

    • @deinisdesousa2969
      @deinisdesousa2969 Рік тому

      that is interesting.

    • @anniewho315
      @anniewho315 Рік тому +5

      Azeri has never been considered info European as Turkic language originated in Mongolia as did the race

    • @kepler215
      @kepler215 Рік тому +6

      I don't know why, but UA-cam keeps deleting my reply to Annie Who. So I gonna write it again, again and again. Azerbaijan is not a mono national country. In Azerbaijan, we speak not only Azerbaijani language but also Talysh, Lezgi ,Tat and etc.
      More about Talysh people :
      The Talish's are one of the northwest Iranian peoples. Talish's are living on the south-west coast of the Caspian Sea. They belong to the Caucasian anthropological type of the south Europeans. The land of the Talish people - Tolish - is divided in two parts between Azerbaijan and Iran.

    • @user-dh9qf5uy6e
      @user-dh9qf5uy6e Рік тому +7

      @@anniewho315 The Talshi language is one of the Indo-European languages ​​and belongs to the branch of Iranian languages, and it is completely different from the Turkish language of Azerbaijan

    • @DevendraMahendraSingh
      @DevendraMahendraSingh 6 місяців тому

      Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory was disproved.

  • @fuenareva
    @fuenareva 7 років тому +637

    As a Basque speaker, all I can say is "We're still here! The last surviving pre-indoeuropean language of Western Europe!"

    • @Krishna-nu8nv
      @Krishna-nu8nv 7 років тому +13

      Hi, what is "mucho gusto" in Basque?

    • @fuenareva
      @fuenareva 7 років тому +24

      Do you mean, as in "nice to meet you" ?

    • @Krishna-nu8nv
      @Krishna-nu8nv 7 років тому +4

      Yes, that's what I mean.. :)

    • @fuenareva
      @fuenareva 7 років тому +106

      We would say "Urte askotarako!" which literally translates as "for many years!"

    • @Krishna-nu8nv
      @Krishna-nu8nv 7 років тому +12

      Oh.. That's kind of cool... :) Thank you..

  • @jms12411
    @jms12411 4 роки тому +1986

    As an Arab, after watching this, i feel like I’m a kid standing behind a fence watching other kids playing.
    ☹️😂

    • @aronlee19901221
      @aronlee19901221 4 роки тому +244

      As a Chinese, I feel perfectly the same. Although Chinese are supposed to be brothers with Tibetan and Burmese, most people here know far less about those languages than English, Japanese or Korean. However, in modern Chinese, quite a few loanwords from Mongolian, Manchurian, and Buddhist texts remain. If you ask people here with what language Chinese share common ancestors, they will almost all absolutely tell you Japanese, which, despite their superficial resemblance in writing, is not the case.

    • @luissuarez5153
      @luissuarez5153 4 роки тому +196

      It is sadder when you realize many afro-asiatic languages are disappeared :(

    • @eliabuoncompagni1899
      @eliabuoncompagni1899 4 роки тому +259

      What about hungarian, finnish, estonian and turkish people? Imagine being surrounded by people who doesn't even share your linguistic origins....

    • @alexisjordan3303
      @alexisjordan3303 4 роки тому +46

      Read joseph Greenberg and Merritt Ruhlen. They posit that all languages in the world are descended from a common origin. You'll feel better. And wahtatever one thinks of that hypothesis, "alle Menschen werden Brüder" (all humans become brothers) after all.

    • @josephcusumano2885
      @josephcusumano2885 4 роки тому +10

      Sorry

  • @Oxaras
    @Oxaras Рік тому +20

    I speak Persian and I have found hundreds of words similar in all European languages compared to Persian 😊🌸

  • @jacques740
    @jacques740 Рік тому +11

    I am Armenian, and I noticed the similarity for the word "Bear" with my language. We say Ber or Per (depending on eastern or western Armenian dialect), and it means "to bring", which is quite similar in meaning.

  • @dragonchickenfajitas2275
    @dragonchickenfajitas2275 7 років тому +1845

    I discovered (on accident while on a trip in Iran) that Western-Slavic way of saying 206 is very very similar to that of Farsi (Iranian).
    206 = Dvestošesť / Dvěstešest / Dwieście sześć
    206 = Divistoshesh (thats how it sounded)
    This happened when I saw Peugeot 206 on the streets in Tehran and said "Aha, Peugeot dvestošesť!" and my Iranian friend told me "Where did you learn to say 206 in farsi?" :D
    Very funny

    • @draganabarac01
      @draganabarac01 7 років тому +131

      +DragonChickenFajitas Serbs and Croats were once tribes of Iranian origin, from the regions north of the Black Sea and the Caucasus.

    • @oribeiser5528
      @oribeiser5528 7 років тому +109

      Interestingly, the word for 6 is quite similar even out of the IE connection, cf. Latin sex, German sechs and Russian шесть (shjest') with the Hebrew f. שש (shesh) and the Arabic سِتَّة (sitta). There is a common shift between s,sh & t in Semitic languages.

    • @draganabarac01
      @draganabarac01 7 років тому +61

      +אורי בייזר My native language is Croatian. Croatian/ Serbian language is very different from other Slavic languages. The influence of other languages ​​to Croatian was huge. Croatian/ Serbian is in the most non Slavic language of all Slavic languages. In our language we have hundreds of French words, several thousands German words, several thousands Italian words, several thousands Greek words, thousands of Persian words, 8, 000 Turkish words and 3,000 Arabic words. The Ottoman Empire ruled in the Balkans for 500 years. In Croatia there are 4,284,889 people, 7,041,599 people in Serbia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina 3,871,643 (total 15,196,131 people). 11% of these people have a Turkish-Mongolian genes and the Turkish-Anatolian genes (that number is 1,671,574). And we are Slavs, yea right. :-P People from the Balkans have Germanic genes, Celtic genes, Slavic genes, Italian genes, Persian genes, Turkish genes and Arabic genes. 40% of Turks have Arabic genes. In fact, we are one of the most mixed people in Europe, as well as Portuguese and Turks. Btw, Hebrew is one of the most beautiful languages ​​in the world, sounds very exotic. :)

    • @mjafar
      @mjafar 7 років тому +32

      200 = De-vist (the-wee-st) which we often pronounce like divist when we talk informally
      o = and
      6 = shesh (just like the hebrew word for 6) which we often pronounce like shiish in conversations

    • @saiprasad1413
      @saiprasad1413 7 років тому +55

      I can see connections to Sanskrit: 200 in Sanskrit is DviShata. And 6 is Shasht.

  • @nikhils3836
    @nikhils3836 4 роки тому +1518

    In schools instead of teaching how we are from other peoples or races maybe they should teach how connected we are

    • @theoneitself
      @theoneitself 4 роки тому +44

      @Kingvanko Infinite not neccesarily, the fact that your language hasnt been "born" with the same origins as the others doesnt mean it is isolated, because even the languages in vecinity loaned words. The best example is the Arab language (the semit languages). They gave HUNDREDS of words to modern IndoEuropran languages in the previous millenum. And even more NOW THAN EVER WE ARE TRULY CONNECTED BECAUSE OF GLOBALIZATION.

    • @cannabisPREVENTION
      @cannabisPREVENTION 3 роки тому +79

      They separate us into racial categories and then assign us into racial hierarchies. Race is a social construct yet they keep pushing it. I’m talking about the leftists of course.

    • @medhavigupta6146
      @medhavigupta6146 3 роки тому +9

      Yes by doing that we can get over social prejudices a discrimination

    • @cerridianempire1653
      @cerridianempire1653 3 роки тому +18

      @@cannabisPREVENTION yeah and they claim to be teaching us to be not racist

    • @samyrandome425
      @samyrandome425 3 роки тому +30

      Lol what kind of fucking school teaches you about "race" as anything more than a 18th century fantasy and as a social construct?
      Sounds like you're American lol

  • @janreznik6287
    @janreznik6287 2 роки тому +17

    I think the PIE word "bher" has its analogy in Slavic languages as well (RU: брать, CS" brát etc... which means "to take" or "to carry")

  • @azgapahhayoc3994
    @azgapahhayoc3994 Рік тому +40

    Many thanks for this informational video!
    I speak Armenian and some other Into-European languages. And, of course, I found multiple cognates and connections between these languages. Just to give you some examples:
    Yes em (Armenian) - I am (English) - Ja sam (south Slavic)
    Du es (Arm) - tu es (French) - Du (German)
    Lsel (Arm) - listen (Eng)
    Asel (Arm) - say (Eng)
    Tun ("home" in Arm) - town ("place of dwelling" Eng)
    Armunk (Arm) - arm (Eng)
    Shat ("many" Arm) - satem (Avest) - cent (Lat) - sto (Slav)
    Tumb (Arm) - tomb (Eng)
    Dur (Arm) - door (eng)
    Duxt (old Arm) - daughter (Eng)
    Mayr (Arm) - Mutter (Germ) - mother (Eng)
    Katu (Arm) - cat (Eng) - chat (Fr)
    ...
    I can go on and on and on... Hundreds, most likely thousands of common roots!
    One think I regret: The absolute majority of Indo-Europeans are totally ignorant about their linguistic and cultural connections, in effect, their blood ancestry and kinship! The Indo-Europeans are perhaps the most ignorant ones among all the linguistic families. And this is very sad!

    • @matthewheald8964
      @matthewheald8964 Рік тому +4

      As for the cognates, thank you for sharing all those! It's awesome to see how much we all have in common if we look hard enough. As for that last bit, I agree; I think it's because the Indo-European languages are a bit more widespread (and even alienated from each other, in some cases; remember Indo-Iranian to the east, most of the other branches to the west, & the mostly Semitic languages in between) than the languages from the other families, but still it's a shame for sure.

    • @YaShoom
      @YaShoom Рік тому +1

      In my opinion, the Indo-Europeans, just the same, are the most aware of their kinship in relation to other cultures (which confirms the presence of this training video).

    • @matthewheald8964
      @matthewheald8964 Рік тому

      @@YaShoom On that, we may have to agree to disagree.

  • @pestylenz7344
    @pestylenz7344 5 років тому +834

    So... Hello, Indo-European brothers !
    Grettings from France !

    • @rusconnectgrayhat8043
      @rusconnectgrayhat8043 5 років тому +15

      Only Brothers ?? You should say people 😂😂😂

    • @pestylenz7344
      @pestylenz7344 5 років тому +48

      @@rusconnectgrayhat8043 all Europeans are brothers.

    • @pestylenz7344
      @pestylenz7344 5 років тому +31

      @Anti-greek HELLENE they are, Celts, romans, and Germans were. So we are.

    • @pestylenz7344
      @pestylenz7344 5 років тому +19

      @Anti-greek HELLENE nope.
      Romans, so the Celts come from the same wave of Indo-European migration.

    • @pestylenz7344
      @pestylenz7344 5 років тому +24

      @Anti-greek HELLENE all indo European are not identical.
      Yes Germanic people are blonder.
      Yes South European are more dark-eyed / dark haired (my case though ) not only Italian, but also Greeks and Albanian.
      If Roman weren't Indo-European, why the f*ck were they speaking an Indo-European language ?

  • @siddhantchauhan6795
    @siddhantchauhan6795 3 роки тому +1199

    I’m Indian and I can say that your Sanskrit pronounciation of asvah (अश्वः) 6:12 was perfect 👌🏼 😱

    • @leelee1782
      @leelee1782 3 роки тому +92

      @@Someone-bg6qu linguist*

    • @laivinis
      @laivinis 3 роки тому +91

      in Lithuanian ašva means mare (female horse) and it pronounces allmost the same as in Sanskrit :)

    • @schipp3525
      @schipp3525 3 роки тому +39

      @@laivinis yes, I watched a video by countryballs explains, I forget it’s name, but he showed multiple words in lituanian that are basically the same as in Sanskrit

    • @laivinis
      @laivinis 3 роки тому +4

      @𓃤𓃨𓃦 𓏲𓇍𓊃𓃭 don't think so. According to you words must be the same in those languages? No they aren't

    • @gudduhero6972
      @gudduhero6972 3 роки тому +15

      I am INDIAN
      now i understand why russian sound so similar to sanskrit when spoken slowly
      also many meaning of words are also same amd moreover russian pronoinciation of words sounds like
      vedic sanskrit of our vedas
      sanskrit word.
      below are meaning of some english word and their meaning and pronunciation in sanskrit
      agni(fire)
      naba(sky)
      braat(brother)
      city(gadh)
      brother in law (devar)
      day(din)
      door(dwaar)
      drizzle(barash)
      mother(matr)
      car(vahan/machina)
      place(ast/asthana)
      man(manushya)
      conscious(swa gnatney)
      know(gnat)
      dry(suskha)
      power(sheel)
      word(sloka)
      country(sthana
      morning(din/uttrah)
      plesant(pri yatniya)
      speak(vadit)
      heat(taap/tap)
      ring(dhvanit)
      victory(vijayat)
      elder(strestha)
      to milk(dohit)
      festival(utsav/rajyustvo)
      word of god/praise of god in veda(sloka bhagniye)
      god(bhagwan/bhaag/bag)
      sugar(sharkar)
      what does this word mean in your launguages kindly comment

  • @monicabennett6620
    @monicabennett6620 2 роки тому +1

    I have loved this channel for about 5 years now. You make language so interesting. Keep up the good work.

  • @storyls
    @storyls 2 роки тому +61

    In Slavic languages, to drink is some variation of “pit.” In Hindi it’s “pina.” Don’t know if it’s a good enough connection but it’s interesting

    • @IllyrianHighlander
      @IllyrianHighlander 2 роки тому +9

      In Albanian its “pije”

    • @mychannel0630
      @mychannel0630 2 роки тому +7

      In greek its πίνω (pino)

    • @mementomori7160
      @mementomori7160 2 роки тому +5

      In Polish the infinitive form is "pić" and when used "ć" can change into "t". We are all one big family

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 2 роки тому +4

      In Sanskrit is even more similar to Slavic - pite.

    • @kakalimukherjee3297
      @kakalimukherjee3297 2 роки тому +2

      It's "peena" in Hindi, and "paan" in bengali. "Drinkable" is "paniyo" in Bengali, and "paniya" in Hindi.

  • @mellamoem89
    @mellamoem89 6 років тому +158

    Hello Langfocus, my name is Em and I am from Thailand. Our language doesn't belong in the Indo-European family but has a lot of loan words especially Sanskrit. While I'am watching this video, I had noticed one Sanskrit word that we also use in our language and that word is bhara, which means "responsibility" in our language. Thank you so much for your videos, I have learnt a lot from them.

    • @VishalDubey
      @VishalDubey 5 років тому +13

      Bhar refers to lift something or weight of something in Hindi, which is direct dicendent from sanskrit.

    • @magpie_girl3741
      @magpie_girl3741 5 років тому +1

      @@VishalDubey And it should. Because in old times the outside was an extension of the interior, or vice versa. They just didn't have as many sophisticated words as we have today. People didn't write, but they had to remember the most sophisticated terms about, for example, spirituality, e.g. wSTYD 'shame, disgrace' has the same root in Polish like STUDiti [studzić] 'to cool' {you could translate both as 'inside the cold' or MIERZiti [mierzić] 'to disgust, to sicken' is the same word like MROZiti [mrozić] 'to freeze, to chill'.
      BRAti [brać, bierzemy 'we take'] 'to take' is cognate to BRIEMIĘ [brzemię] 'weight'. 'Weight' is also 'ciężar'. So: brzemienna = w ciąży 'pregnant'. If we change b into v [in Old Polish they used also wrzemię; we write 'w' as 'v'], we have w-rzemien 'inside strap'. Brzemię means also load, cargo, and it means wiązka 'bundle' (of sticks), it's from wiązać 'to tie, to bind'.
      OBWIĄZAĆ 'to tie around' = OBOWIĄZEK 'duty, responsibility'
      English: to give BIRth, to BEAR
      On Wiktionary they wrote that Sanskrit cognate to wązki 'narrow' is अंहु (amhu) 'narrow'
      You can tell that bringing water, food or fuel WAS a responsibility, the same as childbirth :)

    • @VishalDubey
      @VishalDubey 5 років тому +3

      @@magpie_girl3741thanks for the information. This gives a great perspective to culture of that time which dosent see much different. Even in India we also use 'bhar' in reference to taking responsibility of something.

    • @sathish2532
      @sathish2532 4 роки тому +2

      Thanks🙏
      Tamil: Bharu Means Look and Responsibility.
      Turning Point of language History.
      Tamil is world oldest and live language. Tamil have 50K years history.
      "Tamil (Indo) European" is correct word.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 роки тому

      @@magpie_girl3741 Brati is Slovene word for to take or pick up (pobrati). As you mention cold - hima is in Slovene zima. Himalaya - Frozen hill. Do you have word Veda in Pollish too? Meaning knowlidge.

  • @irmaslager
    @irmaslager 4 роки тому +692

    Me trying to sleep
    My brain: what are the indo european languages and how are they connected

    • @irmaslager
      @irmaslager 4 роки тому +21

      ​@Joshuan Campbell no they are not. I have not claimed anything about Turks being indo-europians in the comment

    • @irmaslager
      @irmaslager 4 роки тому +23

      @Joshuan Campbell and you say that Turkish people cannot be curious about indo-europian languages?

    • @arhangell01
      @arhangell01 4 роки тому +2

      @@irmaslager Are turks language difficult?

    • @vishnunair9957
      @vishnunair9957 4 роки тому +17

      @Joshuan Campbell What are you smoking sir?

    • @irmaslager
      @irmaslager 4 роки тому +4

      @@arhangell01 I think so. Even native speakers are confused sometimes :)

  • @robthetraveler1099
    @robthetraveler1099 3 роки тому +6

    I love this stuff! One of the best channels on UA-cam.

  • @bjornfossberg
    @bjornfossberg 2 роки тому +9

    I began studying Russian and practicing yoga around the same time, about 14 years ago. I was surprised to see the connection between четыре 4 and Sanskrit chattura 4 as in chaturanga dandasana, the four-limbed staff pose. This realisation convinced me of the legitimacy of PIE and lead to much further reading on indo-European.

  • @NeverBeBored08
    @NeverBeBored08 5 років тому +480

    When I was younger, I was at my friend's house, who happens to be Indian. It was 5 pm and his dad asked him what time it was and he replied in Hindi: to me sounded like "patch" for 5. I speak Russian and 5 is pronounced like "pats". That blew my mind

    • @PallabDutt
      @PallabDutt 5 років тому +95

      In most of the north Indian languages five is "paach" which in turn comes from the root sanskrit word "pancha"

    • @PallabDutt
      @PallabDutt 5 років тому +1

      @rushikesh gupte when did I say that?

    • @harisasghar
      @harisasghar 5 років тому +24

      @rushikesh gupte well you can also call it migration, not invasion. Also most people who switch to a new language is because of assimilation, meaning people remain the same, they just adopt language of ruling class of that time. So calling north indians as foreigners would be incorrect.

    • @souvikgoswami9824
      @souvikgoswami9824 5 років тому +3

      @rushikesh gupte are you south Indian?

    • @MohammadMotevalli
      @MohammadMotevalli 5 років тому +31

      In persian we say panj

  • @toytimewithjasmine7343
    @toytimewithjasmine7343 4 роки тому +563

    I love how 1,000 people put a thumbs down, like they actually stopped and said, "No. I don't like learning about ancient linguistics. No." lol

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  4 роки тому +293

      It’s mostly for ideological reasons (ie. people insisting that Sanskrit is the mother of all Indo-European languages.)

    • @Incidental104
      @Incidental104 4 роки тому +85

      Thats called jealous Turkic nomads :) defiantly not native to Anatolia or Indo European

    • @izobel2899
      @izobel2899 3 роки тому +59

      @@Incidental104 the Turkic people killed many Indo-European languages

    • @Ida-xe8pg
      @Ida-xe8pg 3 роки тому +17

      @
      Izobel Lol are you uneducated? Turks have never killed any person (like Greeks, Assyrians, Armenians etc) they are a very peaceful nation

    • @izobel2899
      @izobel2899 3 роки тому +24

      @@muhtesemsiyanur sickman of Western Aisa

  • @ericmix
    @ericmix Рік тому +4

    Seeing (hearing) the connections between all of the languages in this family is mind blowing! 😳🤯😂Thanks for another great video! 🙏🏼🤩👍🏼

  • @chrisleon5918
    @chrisleon5918 2 роки тому +1

    Bruh, idk if you still are making videos but your content has been in my scroll for a few months now, and you make the most delightfully educational stuff I come across.

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks! Yeah, I still make videos, but you might have to go to my channel page to see the latest ones. UA-cam just recommends whichever ones it thinks you are likely to click on.

  • @dcseain
    @dcseain 7 років тому +202

    Many years ago, I worked in a grocery store. I was giving directions in Spanish to a customer near a co-worker. "Va recta" was part of the directions. co-worker asked what recta meant. I told her it means straight, like a line. co-worker, v from India, was named Rekha and commented that her name meant that too. The video brought that interaction to mind. .

    • @sion8
      @sion8 7 років тому +1

      *+*

    • @markmayonnaise1163
      @markmayonnaise1163 7 років тому +5

      I guess you two could SEE THE RESEMBLANCE

    • @Krishna-nu8nv
      @Krishna-nu8nv 7 років тому +42

      In Sanskrit, Rekha is a straight line, Rashmi is a ray, Bindu is a point.. All of them are also women's names here..

    • @donplummer8936
      @donplummer8936 7 років тому +16

      And of course, the English cognate is "right."

    • @mohammadkafaeekho3667
      @mohammadkafaeekho3667 7 років тому +15

      in persian we say "Rast" for the word right or straight

  • @donchesnut4075
    @donchesnut4075 3 роки тому +537

    I'm an native English speaker. Prior to my many visits to India, I learned a little Hindi. I was surprised by the number of cognate words I recognized.

    • @kakalimukherjee3297
      @kakalimukherjee3297 2 роки тому +27

      For me, the closest one seems to be door in English, and dor in Bengali (d soft) and dwar in Hindi. Very interesting. I can only imagine what the guy who first discovered this felt like.

    • @ConstellationOrion
      @ConstellationOrion 2 роки тому +16

      These cognates are due to the huge impact of english on india's languages. So the cognates you realized are actually the wors taken from english.

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 2 роки тому +45

      @@ConstellationOrion No way, Sanskrit is about 3000 years older than English, so those words are of Sanskrit origin.

    • @iamiam5647
      @iamiam5647 2 роки тому +23

      @@bojanstare8667
      English, Hindi and Sanskrit are both Indo-European languages, even Portuguese which is my native language has similarities to Sanskrit and Hindi

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 2 роки тому +11

      @@iamiam5647 Of course. But statement that English has influenced Hindi is quite nonsense. Sanskrit as ancestor language of Hindi, has more older vocabulary than English. Those words, whichare supose come from English, were written in Snskrit (Rig Veda) way more before (3000 years) Englsih has arose. So you cannot mix very youbg language with a very old language. It is the same as someone has claimed, that Greek language has loanborrowed words from English. Almost anybody today knows, that it couldn`t be that way.
      Do you agree?

  • @spaansmetalex4236
    @spaansmetalex4236 2 роки тому +8

    I speak Spanish (as my native language), study English (since I was 4), Dutch, I also studied a little of French and Portuguese, and now I can see that many words in each language has a little similitude. For example, "Vragen" (In Dutch), and "Preguntar" (to ask) in Spanish, or "Hunderd" and "-cientos". (Hundred). Also "Schrijven" and "Escribir" (to write), although Spanish is a romance language and Dutch a Germanic language. Is fun to think that all these languages are a kind of cousins or brothers or something like that

  • @abdulaleem9207
    @abdulaleem9207 2 роки тому +1

    you videos and the comments section make a healthy dose of information! 👍

  • @sudhirniranjanlalsharma3538
    @sudhirniranjanlalsharma3538 4 роки тому +870

    Hello to all our Indo-European brothers, from India..

    • @AmandaRibeiro528
      @AmandaRibeiro528 4 роки тому +81

      Hello.From Brazil

    • @asdrubaelvect6406
      @asdrubaelvect6406 4 роки тому +87

      yo brothers, greetings from germany

    • @echoes5476
      @echoes5476 4 роки тому +66

      Hola, from Chile, the indo-europeans are also in "the end of the world"

    • @rajesh_r87
      @rajesh_r87 4 роки тому +74

      Eastern and Western India have Indo-European language while the South part speaks dravidian languages as we all know.

    • @vampire5131
      @vampire5131 4 роки тому +23

      It amazes me how our language so related. Never thought of it. Cheers ✌️✌️

  • @akbrahma7739
    @akbrahma7739 4 роки тому +435

    I guess globalization is a concept much older than we think it is.

    • @longboy7
      @longboy7 4 роки тому +30

      lol of course, and peak globalization was the western european colonial era

    • @ddwkc
      @ddwkc 3 роки тому +29

      Ancient world was probably connected from UK to India to Japan. At very least Greek to Kush to Central Asia were highly connected. It was common to have traders and scholars who knew 3 or more languages and have proclamations written in more than the native language.
      Even what we call the Dark Ages were not as dark and isolated.
      The way we study history at school makes it less connected.

    • @kNowFixx
      @kNowFixx 3 роки тому +7

      this isn't globalization. it's imperialism.

    • @sethmedina6451
      @sethmedina6451 3 роки тому +3

      Tower of babel

    • @franchufranchu119
      @franchufranchu119 3 роки тому +31

      @@kNowFixx Ah yes, the ancient Indo-European empire, learning how to tame horses for their wicked and evil purposes.

  • @nicklatino7157
    @nicklatino7157 2 роки тому

    Thank you for the launguages map at 0:53. Possibly the best launguages map I've seen

  • @racecar7808
    @racecar7808 2 роки тому +1

    Dude, catch my burning 👍👍👍 and loyal subscription. Awesome video !

  • @antadhg
    @antadhg 5 років тому +314

    “Infinity War will be the biggest crossover of all time “

    • @adamhendrickson512
      @adamhendrickson512 5 років тому +6

      No.... Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Queen, Bryan Adams, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, performing Smoke on the Water was the GREATEST crossover of all time.... ;)

    • @imranharith8936
      @imranharith8936 5 років тому +2

      @@adamhendrickson512 I know that haha, I really love it

    • @djb5255
      @djb5255 4 роки тому +4

      Hold my conjugation tree...

    • @driedpancake
      @driedpancake 4 роки тому

      hello gearoid

  • @Qwertowsky
    @Qwertowsky 5 років тому +247

    My first language is Russian, and I had absolutely no idea my language and any of the languages mentioned had anything in common. Now i feel even more connected to the rest of the world, i guess.

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  5 років тому +37

      Great! 👍

    • @souvikgoswami9824
      @souvikgoswami9824 5 років тому +4

      @@Langfocus can you make an academy for indo european languages to prevent death of any IElanguages.

    • @dwd_sty
      @dwd_sty 5 років тому +25

      lazy person :/
      Russian Sanskrit English
      Naš Nas Ours
      Svoi Sva One's own
      Ty Tvam you
      Tebya Tva you
      Brov Bhuru Brow
      Dever Dever Brother in law
      Govorit Gavati To speak
      Grabit' Grabhati To seize, loot
      Griva Griva Neck
      Krov Kravya Blood
      Myaso Mansa Flesh
      Zhizn' Jivana Life
      Nosorog Nasasringa Rhinoceros
      Okhotnik Akhetika Hunter
      Nebo Nabhas Sky
      Veter Vata Wind
      Gora Giri Mountain
      Bog Bhaga God
      Pochitaniye Pujan Worship
      Noch Nakta Night
      Ogon Agni Fire
      Dver Dvara Door
      Soyuz Samyoga Union

    • @martintuma9974
      @martintuma9974 2 роки тому

      @@dwd_sty In west and south Slavic languages, "oy" changed to v:
      Slovak: sväz
      Croatian: savez

  • @zih8645
    @zih8645 3 роки тому +5

    So fascinating, thanks for comparing. I wish you did a video on Lithuanian.

  • @Turkish_Model__1
    @Turkish_Model__1 Рік тому +10

    Every single word associated with agriculture in Europe is of Indo-European origin. There are also many maritime words as well such as "sail". Suggesting the Indo-Europeans were avid seafarers..
    "Scythe"
    "Plough"
    "Wheat"
    "Bread"
    "Milk"
    "Cattle"
    "Goat"
    "Sheep"
    "Swine"
    "Wine"
    "Beer"
    "Mead"
    "Wool"
    "Hull"
    "Rudder"
    "Sail"
    "Axe"
    Every one of these words came from and with the Indo-Europeans....Suggesting the Indo-Europeans wrere synonymous with the advent of agriculture in the fertile crescent...
    With the facts above in mind
    Real European History :
    Haplogroup R1b,R1a (Indigenous Europeans)(Basques, Gaels, Poles)
    Haplogroup I (Neolithic Indo European wave from Anatolia.Stone monuments, Polytheism, Pottery,Longhouses, Axes,Sailing ships)(Bosnians,Scandinavians,Sardinians)
    Haplogroup J2b (Bronze Age Indo European wave. Ancient Greece, Rome. Writing, Metallurgy) (Modern Cretans)
    And some lesser sporadic influxes of Haplogroup E (North Africa) and Haplogroup G (Western Caucasus)

  • @SeanJohnIoannesGiovanni
    @SeanJohnIoannesGiovanni 4 роки тому +501

    Latin - sanskrit
    Mater- matri
    Pater- pitri
    Genu- janu(knees)
    Occi- akshi(eyes)
    Sanct - sant(saint)
    Deo- Dev (god)

    • @elisaba9452
      @elisaba9452 4 роки тому +31

      In old persian which is called pahlvai deó : God but now Xoda
      Pedar,madar ( father ,mother )

    • @SeanJohnIoannesGiovanni
      @SeanJohnIoannesGiovanni 4 роки тому +38

      @@elisaba9452 xoda is the effect of islamisation and influence of arabic that came with it i think.

    • @Slugawielkiegobrata
      @Slugawielkiegobrata 4 роки тому +8

      It's interesting because in Persian Dev (Deo) means devil or a big monster :)

    • @Slugawielkiegobrata
      @Slugawielkiegobrata 4 роки тому +7

      @@SeanJohnIoannesGiovanni no Xoda was before Arab invasion, which meant Leader, Noble or God

    • @SeanJohnIoannesGiovanni
      @SeanJohnIoannesGiovanni 4 роки тому +32

      @@Slugawielkiegobrata
      Yes it is... The modern usage of "Khuda" in india is a persian influence not arab.
      Dev is sanskrit for God, like Latin "Deo".

  • @myomarothman
    @myomarothman 7 років тому +491

    Does anyone else keep looking at the video's time hoping that the video won't end soon?

  • @asdprogram
    @asdprogram 2 роки тому +5

    I really enjoyed this educating content. These connections are so distorted through the time. But it's insane still how proveable are 2 basicially quite different languages. Once I really would like to see a similar content from you, when you're proving connections between Uralic languages.

    • @byron-ih2ge
      @byron-ih2ge 2 роки тому +1

      Aah here comes the imposter of europe😂

  • @nachosalazar7616
    @nachosalazar7616 Рік тому +1

    I knew you look familiar off course King Roger! love it! also love how you show us different words on different ancient languages !!!

  • @Big_Tex
    @Big_Tex 4 роки тому +759

    American: About
    Canadian: Aboot
    I shoulda been a linguist.

    • @Indra-ud9gt
      @Indra-ud9gt 4 роки тому +26

      British: About
      Australian: About
      Spanish: Sobre... What?

    • @you_mtt3r477
      @you_mtt3r477 4 роки тому +7

      Being from Ottawa,Canada,i've only heard three people say aboot in my life. But then again,i havent been all over Canada.
      Aboot just sounds so wrong unless you lost the second boot.. 😆🤦‍♂️

    • @zamanium7517
      @zamanium7517 4 роки тому

      Russian language OB , OBO , O

    • @okaywhatevernevermind
      @okaywhatevernevermind 4 роки тому +8

      Canadian sounds more a-boat

    • @doriamvell5386
      @doriamvell5386 4 роки тому +3

      Обо [мне] (russian) (obo)
      About [me]
      Стоять - eq: сто-йа-ть (stoyat')
      Stand
      Останься (root: стан) (ostan's'ya)
      Stay
      p.s.
      If someone gonna learn russian - tend to learn roots of words and word-generation.

  • @juhijasmine5790
    @juhijasmine5790 5 років тому +147

    I recently started learning german and I’m from India 🇮🇳 .. This new language surprises me daily 🇩🇪

    • @arghyadasb2
      @arghyadasb2 4 роки тому +14

      Tutonic powerful languages are the alive symbols of Aryan culture..we are part of it..So I love German and started to learn it few days ago. How much time it may take? And how to learn it in the best way? Please guide

    • @ArghyaDas44
      @ArghyaDas44 4 роки тому +23

      @@arghyadasb2 We both have swastika too... well we Indians consider it as a sacred symbol, not a racial one, but it still shows our aryan ancestry.

    • @arghyadasb2
      @arghyadasb2 4 роки тому +15

      @@ArghyaDas44 Yes, in a way what we forgot.. because of 3 most purest common Aryan ancestry, Germanic races(tutons, nords), Iranians and Indians are cousins if not siblings...Sanskrit, Yamanuya and German language are just some modifications of tongue twister abilities...we share same grammar and to some extent same anthropology (if studied scientifically by the virtue of bone structure and not by the vague term 'white race'.. because if you concider sun beams north Indian Varna Hindus are also from white race if white race means Aryans)
      But the problem is when we just reveal just a historical or scientific fact like this... people starts abusing us as racists..we are all human beings bla bla...when I told that we are Aryans but never mentioned that Aryans are superior than others.. because they always suffer from inborn inferiority complex and they fear us that if we get United by any means the best brains will end their fake reigns and problems their creating to get benefited and make this world a hell...
      There's nothing we can do... except one.. refrain from giving birth another insane company like Hitler and Goebels, Amon Goeth etc

    • @Rondo2ooo
      @Rondo2ooo 4 роки тому +8

      @@arghyadasb2 arian means 'from Iran'. The idiots in 1930s just twisted ancestry for politics.

    • @schnwiedr5503
      @schnwiedr5503 4 роки тому +11

      @@arghyadasb2 why would you call yourself aryan? first of all the genetic connection between indo european groups is minimal compared to the genetic connections these subgroups have with non-indoeuropean people.
      second there was never a big genetic or even cultural group that called itself aryan except maybe certain subgroups.
      so if you call yourself aryan you are sending a strong signal to the other side that you have distorted racial believes.

  • @jerrybaird2059
    @jerrybaird2059 2 роки тому +1

    Outstanding video!

  • @MrRabiddogg
    @MrRabiddogg 2 роки тому +4

    This isn't the first video/podcast I've been on regarding PIE so I was somewhat already familiar with the relationships but it still fascinates me. There are certain words that are clearly related like the various words for the Deity even if certain modern languages no longer use it as the primary word. PIE used to be called the Japhetic language group, similar to the Semitic for the same reason.

  • @avidian888
    @avidian888 6 років тому +124

    As an Iranian growing up with the Persian language I always found it curious to recognise similar words in the English language, like Father = Pedar, Mother = Madar, Brother = Baradar, Daughter = Dokhtar and so on. Also the Persian grammar is far more similar to European languages than to Arabic. So even before I knew about the proto language, I felt the connection with the other two languages that I fluently learned, English and German. It's a very interesting topic.

    • @makradars8150
      @makradars8150 5 років тому +20

      The question is that why you should mention Arabic there?!!! Persian has no similarities with Arabic in grammars...

    • @JohnPKING-nj8nc
      @JohnPKING-nj8nc 5 років тому +31

      He mentions Arabic because Arabic speakers live so close to Persia - they even have a common religion so it would seem probable that Persians and say Iraqis or Syrians might speak a related language - kind of how French, Italian, Spanish are related languages and the countries where they are spoken are right next to one another.
      The same thing that the Persian speaker noticed happened when scholars from Western Europe ( I think they were British ) went to India to study their religion and language ( Sanskrit ). They were quite struck and surprised how many basic kinship words seemed to be similar to English - something they never expected.
      This triggered a different approach to studying languages in Europe and other parts of the world. They gradually realized that most of the languages in Europe had common forgotten languages many thousands of years earlier.
      For some reason, Lithuanian is one of the most conservative and least changes IE language and is believed to be the closest modern language to proto-Indo-European.

    • @Confucius_76
      @Confucius_76 5 років тому +7

      And the 1953 CIA coup in Iran was a terrible crime

    • @baphometpresidente4637
      @baphometpresidente4637 5 років тому

      so you are white European now? israel is going to bomb your Iranian turban soon.

    • @Confucius_76
      @Confucius_76 5 років тому +15

      @@baphometpresidente4637 are you a brainwashed Israel lover?

  • @user-et4vc4fi7m
    @user-et4vc4fi7m 7 років тому +666

    and well i can recognize that Russian have very much similarity with sanskrit ! Greetings to our India Brothers! :)
    Russian Sanskrit English
    Naš Nas Ours
    Svoi Sva One's own
    Ty Tvam you
    Tebya Tva you
    Brov Bhuru Brow
    Dever Dever Brother in law
    Govorit Gavati To speak
    Grabit' Grabhati To seize, loot
    Griva Griva Neck
    Krov Kravya Blood
    Myaso Mansa Flesh
    Zhizn' Jivana Life
    Nosorog Nasasringa Rhinoceros
    Okhotnik Akhetika Hunter
    Nebo Nabhas Sky
    Veter Vata Wind
    Gora Giri Mountain
    Bog Bhaga God
    Pochitaniye Pujan Worship
    Noch Nakta Night
    Ogon Agni Fire
    Dver Dvara Door
    Soyuz Samyoga Union

    • @Krishna-nu8nv
      @Krishna-nu8nv 7 років тому +73

      Greeting to you from India... I'm from the communist part of India, Kerala.. lol..

    • @anonymousbloke1
      @anonymousbloke1 7 років тому +76

      Юрий Гагарин
      Neck in Russian is Sheya, not "Griva".
      "Griva" means "horse's hair"

    • @vaevictis2789
      @vaevictis2789 7 років тому +65

      TristeCarl griva means also neck, its archaic form, in modern russian were have word "zagrivok"

    • @anonymousbloke1
      @anonymousbloke1 7 років тому +7

      Alexandr AP Yet griva still doesn't mean "neck" :| How am I wrong?

    • @SuperValue350
      @SuperValue350 7 років тому +26

      AFAIK Kerala is South India, you guys are not indo-europeans.

  • @duesen756
    @duesen756 2 роки тому +5

    As a German and Latvian native speaker, I noticed many similarities in vocab and grammar when I used to study Italian at school between Latvian and Italian.

  • @mirrorblue100
    @mirrorblue100 2 роки тому

    Fascinating - if a bit dizzying - great program - thanks!

  • @mistaspot1
    @mistaspot1 6 років тому +317

    INDO-EUROPEAN PRIDE, Y'ALL! We are one big family.

    • @Saiputera
      @Saiputera 5 років тому +3

      @@jvincent6548 lmao sure as hell genetic even a hugh chunks of DNA in iran,india having R1A dna is almost the same as eastern european people

    • @drthomasfister5997
      @drthomasfister5997 5 років тому +6

      @@Saiputera R1a is a y-DNA Haplogroup which you inherit from your father. The y chromosome is one out of 46 chromosomes so the y chromosome is a very small part of the human genome. By your logic, a lot of African Americans are actually white because a big percentage of them carry R1b y-DNA (characteristic for Western Europe).

    • @Saiputera
      @Saiputera 5 років тому +13

      @@drthomasfister5997 lmao african american in usa are very mixed yo, having half of the precent of R1B dna doesn't make you white yo, you need 100% R1b,R1A also if big percentage if african american carry r1b why are they still black. Even iranian and hugh chunk of indian(those living in the north) is more whiter then african american 😂😂

    • @maxonite
      @maxonite 5 років тому

      @@jvincent6548 let people have fun will ya

    • @rejencann7411
      @rejencann7411 5 років тому +19

      We're even the same race! (No racism intended towards others) All Indo-Europeans are pure Aryans, apart from the Indians, who are a mix of Aryan blood and the native Indian blood (of the Indus Valley) forming a new race which modern Indians are, Indo-Aryan or Indic.

  • @sudhirniranjanlalsharma3538
    @sudhirniranjanlalsharma3538 4 роки тому +170

    In Sanskrit, for 'dog' it's श्वान (shwaan) and in French it's 'chien'.
    In Hindi, for 'you' it's Tu and in French It is also Tu.

    • @daivablaziunaite6877
      @daivablaziunaite6877 4 роки тому +24

      "dog" in Lithuanian Šuo (In Sanskrit shwaan), and "You" - Tu :)

    • @iveseenyourrepulsionitlook534
      @iveseenyourrepulsionitlook534 4 роки тому +12

      Spanish
      Dog: perro; can (from latin)
      You: tú

    • @mihaela5227
      @mihaela5227 4 роки тому +9

      In romanian as well : tu, in hindi = tu

    • @armanfeli1011
      @armanfeli1011 4 роки тому +4

      In Persian it’s “sag” سگ lol

    • @armanfeli1011
      @armanfeli1011 4 роки тому +7

      And also in Persian the word for “you” is “tō” تو

  • @muhammadamanzadeh7610
    @muhammadamanzadeh7610 2 роки тому +5

    Talyshi is a northwestern Iranian language which is spoken in the Talysh area.
    I've found many similarities between Talyshi and English. For example,
    The singular word for leaf is pronounced the same as english language : leaf, and the plural form is also pronounced leaves

  • @diodelrio
    @diodelrio 3 роки тому +4

    I am addicted by the topic of Indo european languages, mr. Paullus!

  • @ilakya
    @ilakya 6 років тому +177

    I'm Thai. Many Thai words are from Sanskrit and Pali. And I always notice many of those in mythical ancient words of Greek and Sanskrit are share some resemblance.
    Pali - Akki, Sanskrit - Agni are sure relate to Igni.
    Nama, Naman, Nam are directly translate to modern english as name and also use to catagorize a kind of word witch is noun

    • @mitsengupta8945
      @mitsengupta8945 6 років тому +15

      Piyalak Nuchim Thai is no near related with Indo-European languages. Thai simply have some IE loanwords.

    • @ronaldoseven4865
      @ronaldoseven4865 6 років тому +16

      Buddy, Thai language is not an Indo-European language just because Hindi, Sanskrit and other Indo-Iranian languages have influence Thai. Indonesian in the other hand had inherited Dutch, England, Portuguese, Hindi, Persian and Sanskrit does not mean Indonesian is becoming an Indo-European language.

    • @varman001
      @varman001 5 років тому +16

      You are very correct, Pali/Sanskrit came to Thailand through Buddhism, and retained in local languages. It is obvious all humans spoke one language at one point in time, and diverged as we left Africa and settled all around the world. First emigration out of Africa was the South Indian Dravidian languages, and the native languages of South East Asians including Koreans, Australian natives, and Polynasians, for exampl Korean and Tamil share more than 500 identical words that I was amazed a a Koreal scholar was explaining. The second wave of emigration happened later and evolved as Proto-Indo-European I believe, because Dravidian and Indo European clearly have distinct origins, vocabulary, and idioms.

    • @mebrowneyedgirl
      @mebrowneyedgirl 5 років тому +3

      I'm greek and really interested to hear resemblance if greek words to Thai. Can you give examples?

    • @jvsuryanarayana
      @jvsuryanarayana 5 років тому +8

      Bumibol= Bhumipala= Ruler of the Earth. Aduldej+ Atulya teja+ Unequalled Effulgence. (Names of Late His Majesty King Rama. Wajralongorn= Vajra+ Alankaara+ Adorned with Diamonds. My mother tongue Telugu a South Indian language, also draws from Pali. Akki is Aggi in Telugu. Mama+ mine, Naamam= name, is Surya Narayana

  • @robertzali3340
    @robertzali3340 3 роки тому +282

    I speak Lithuanian, German, English, Russian. Lately, I have been reading quite a lot in English and I have noticed that in the archaic Baltic-Lithuanian language a number of words are very similar to probably the old British words. Here they are: bairn - bernas, bee - bitė, bellow - bliauti, berate - barti, blank - blankus, bleat - bliauti, bulb - bulvė, bumble - bumbėti, but - bet, clack - klegėt, close - glaustas, cloth - kloti, crate - kraitelė, croak - krenkšti, cry - kriokt, crush - krušt, do - daryt, draw - traukti, dripp - dribti, thunder - dundėti, eat - ėsti, fall - pulti, fill - pilt, get -gaut, gill - giluma, grind - grūsti, grip, grab - griebt, grope - grabalioti, groove - griovelis, gurgle - gurguliuoti, gully - gili dauba, griovelis, help - gelbėti, hole -ola, you - jūs, joke - juoktis, lean - liesas, let - leist, lip - lūpa, lull - liūliuoti, mind - manyti, moor - maurai, mother - moteris, motina, murmur - murmėti, night - naktis, or - ar, nose - nosis, per - per, persecute -persekioti, pestle - piesta, ride - raitas, ruck - raukti, roan - rainas (širmas), roop - rypauti, scourge -skriaust, scuttle - skuosti, seek - siekt, sew - siūti, sieve - sietas, sit - sėst, slide, slid - slidu, slink - slinkt, slog - slogus, slosh - šliukšt, slough - slogus, smug - smagu, speed - spėti, spew -spjaudalai, vėmalai, spit - spjaut, sway -svaigt, swivel -svyruoti, tack - takas, think - dingoti, throw - trenkt, thwart - tverti, utter - uturuoti, vie, vying - vajus, vomit - vemt, withe - vysti, wilt -vysti, werth - vertė, word - vardas, writhe - raitytis, wrath - rūstis ..... and many of others. Respect .

    • @bruhmomenthdr7575
      @bruhmomenthdr7575 2 роки тому +10

      Respect 😱🥶

    • @jamesm.9285
      @jamesm.9285 2 роки тому +5

      How did you fo it? That's awesome. 😃

    • @leashishlowa9575
      @leashishlowa9575 2 роки тому +8

      Wow, I'm latvian, I too speak 4.5 languages and learning more. I didn't know this. Some words correspond to Latvian 🤩

    • @Yanate1991
      @Yanate1991 Рік тому

      Shut up nerd

    • @TheRavageFang
      @TheRavageFang Рік тому +3

      Wergom mentioned in the video seems like lithuanian 'vergas' - slave to me, which in a sense is a worker.

  • @geenath53
    @geenath53 2 роки тому +1

    Great Video! A lot of information.

  • @rszenstudios1670
    @rszenstudios1670 Рік тому +6

    German car : wagon
    Sanskrit car : wahan
    .....

  • @franciscoveca4287
    @franciscoveca4287 7 років тому +36

    The word for night is pretty consistent between IE languages. You have night, noche (Spanish), nuit (French), noite (Portuguese), notte (Italian), νύχτα (/nihta/ Greek), Nacht (German), ночь (/noch'/ Russian), nos (Welsh), etc

    • @franciscoveca4287
      @franciscoveca4287 7 років тому +10

      Also the word for star. Star, estrella (Spanish), stella (Latin), seren (Welsh), Stern (German), ster (Dutch), αστέρι (/asteri/ Greek), stêrk (Kurdish), աստղ (/astgh/ Armenian), etc

    • @ellyansari7189
      @ellyansari7189 7 років тому +4

      francisco veca persian-setare

    • @niamhhopkins6368
      @niamhhopkins6368 7 років тому +2

      francisco veca not in Irish, night = oiche and star = réalt

    • @nestrus834
      @nestrus834 7 років тому +3

      Albanian: Nata

    • @Raquii98
      @Raquii98 7 років тому +1

      Niamh Hopkins maybe réalt is not similar, but oiche is

  • @irinakolcheva5212
    @irinakolcheva5212 4 роки тому +119

    The diversity of these languages is impresive. It`s hard to believe that they all have one origin.

    • @alessandrotorrini3581
      @alessandrotorrini3581 2 роки тому +25

      Had I met you 5000 years ago, we wouldn't have had problems to understand each other, now we must speak English, one of the most stupid language ever.

    • @infini_ryu9461
      @infini_ryu9461 2 роки тому +2

      @@alessandrotorrini3581 You'd probably be speaking a different language.
      When people hate us, they'll say it in our language. 😁

    • @alessandrotorrini3581
      @alessandrotorrini3581 2 роки тому +1

      @@infini_ryu9461 Ma che stronzate dici?

    • @Aman-qr6wi
      @Aman-qr6wi 2 роки тому +1

      Indo-european theory is a colonial construct meant to instigate and divide south indians against north indians and make north indians foreigners in their own land.
      Sanskrit is not indo-"european", its an indian language. Hinduism is a native religion and arya means noble.

    • @Aman-qr6wi
      @Aman-qr6wi 2 роки тому

      @yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg what's wrong in appreciating greeks?or chinese?or persians? I love all of them equally but to say that india is somehow connected to it is a pseudoscientific colonial theory. We're indigenous to india.
      No white can tell us our history. British may have came from central asia but we're natives and we built indus valley civilisation. We're not central asians.
      All of this "theory" is islamomarxist propaganda funded by christian missionaries and part of broader roman-british-arabic plot to divide india so that it can not grow because india is a distinct civilisation.
      Arabic mullahs will never succeed in this propaganda. See the condition of Pakistanis.
      We're distantly related with iranians/persians but its sad to see persians falling into this propaganda. Persia/iran was once greatest centre of civilisation even better than rome and europe, but arabs destroyed and appropriated their culture as "islamic golden age". Now, iran has joined this arabic propaganda against india.

  • @dzvinochok123
    @dzvinochok123 Рік тому +4

    In Ukrainian 8:10 very similar to PIE bhero - beru (беру means "I take"), bheresi - beresh (береш means "you take"), bhereti - bere (бере means "he/she takes") - but this word means "to take" - I think in the past it meant to bear but then the meaning shifted to "take"

  • @sash4all
    @sash4all Рік тому +1

    Hey, great clip and truly interesting 👍

  • @sofakinggenius4936
    @sofakinggenius4936 4 роки тому +115

    I was shocked after reading the translation of the song 'Mi Gente'
    Here's a Spanish > Sanskrit translation of the title
    *Mi* = *Mamm*
    *Gente* = *Janta or Jana*
    Which means *My People*

    • @raindropsneverfall
      @raindropsneverfall 4 роки тому +7

      Just a word of caution, Spanish has many loanwords from Arabic which is not an Indo-European language.

    • @samyak9592
      @samyak9592 4 роки тому +10

      @@raindropsneverfall hindi too has many loan words from Arabic, but Sanskrit is untouched, as only certain people were allowed to speak in it.

    • @LifeOfMrBrian
      @LifeOfMrBrian 3 роки тому +11

      @@raindropsneverfall False. Spanish had a little vocabulary of arabic words, which are basically nouns for food or objects. And arabic new words came to all Europe since the Middle Ages, for example: sugar, rice, cotton, alcohol, coffee, chemist, algebra... but many of them come from sanskrit, in turn indoeuropean. The word 'gente' comes from latin 'gens, genti'.

    • @LifeOfMrBrian
      @LifeOfMrBrian 3 роки тому +3

      @Kingvanko Infinite False. Spanish has in total history more 300000 words, the words from arabic and arabism derivatived are 4000, so these are as much 1.3% counting derivatives. Of course we use 100 times less words, maybe 40 arabism in 3000 words, but again we have synonymous for many of them.

    • @shreyansrout9341
      @shreyansrout9341 3 роки тому +2

      @Pivos Pivepic no evidence of pie. It's just a constructed theory because you're too proud to even accept that sanskrit is actually the mother of most European languages. I mean your ancestors were roaming naked when sanskrit scholars used to study astronomy and mathematics. Lol. Just to feel better you made up this theory of pie which is bullshit.

  • @tamaterpd4767
    @tamaterpd4767 6 років тому +154

    In Rig veda (sanskrit) Son is Soon, father is Pitr, Brother is Bhratr, mother is Matr, Sister is Swasa/Swasar, Daughter is Duhitar/Duhita

    • @avinash_mishra91
      @avinash_mishra91 5 років тому +57

      Tomato is tamater😂

    • @islamislam-zw3il
      @islamislam-zw3il 5 років тому +9

      tamater pd brother is bratha , not bratar .
      Mother is mata , not matar .
      Son is putr , not suun....

    • @avinash_mishra91
      @avinash_mishra91 5 років тому +25

      @@islamislam-zw3il brother is bhrata/bhratra
      Mother is mata/matr
      Son is putra/soon

    • @avinash_mishra91
      @avinash_mishra91 5 років тому +12

      @@islamislam-zw3il bhrata mata putra are modern form of bhratra matr & ssoon

    • @pranavathalye
      @pranavathalye 5 років тому +21

      In Rigvedic Sanskrit:
      Son = सूनु (sūnu)
      Daughter = दुहितृ (duhitr)
      Mother = मातृ (mātr)
      Father = पितृ (pitr)
      Brother = भ्रातृ (bhrātr)
      Sister = स्वसृ (Svasr)
      The terms पुत्र (putra) and पुत्री (putri) for son and daughter respectively became more popular later in the development of Sanskrit.

  • @mahyars2731
    @mahyars2731 Рік тому

    Brilliant video! Thanks 👍

  • @bekes3274
    @bekes3274 3 роки тому +25

    Hello cousins ✌❤🌞💚😄 much love from Kurdistan

    • @kurdpkk6569
      @kurdpkk6569 3 роки тому

      biji☀✌kurdistan
      fak turki tirurist_mngoli

    • @waduhek6886
      @waduhek6886 2 роки тому +2

      @@kurdpkk6569 this shows the mentality of you guys. what does turks have to do with this video that you are saying that? you guys are just middle easterns who are uneducated

    • @waduhek6886
      @waduhek6886 2 роки тому +2

      @@kurdpkk6569 even your name carries the name of a terrorist group, you guys just spread hate!

    • @user-ix4oo8ki1n
      @user-ix4oo8ki1n 2 роки тому

      بژیت

  • @waleeedoxx9
    @waleeedoxx9 3 роки тому +374

    In Kurdish language :
    “Satem” literally means “100th”
    “Baar” means “carriage/bearing”
    “Asp” means “horse”
    “Daar” means “Tree/wood”

    • @bornasalehi5874
      @bornasalehi5874 3 роки тому +17

      also in gilaki we say daar as tree. and in pahlawy that is mother of the persian and another iranian languages, this word is daar

    • @parsaasadi1562
      @parsaasadi1562 3 роки тому +3

      @@bornasalehi5874 تو کردی ب میشه پ ، ز میشه ژ خیلی باحاله

    • @parsaasadi1562
      @parsaasadi1562 3 роки тому +2

      @@bornasalehi5874 یه سوال زبان مازندرانی و گیلکی یکیه؟

    • @bornasalehi5874
      @bornasalehi5874 3 роки тому +3

      @@parsaasadi1562 دو تا زبانن ولی هر دو از خانواده زبان های کاسپی هستن

    • @kriss581
      @kriss581 3 роки тому +4

      How do you say "door" in kurdish ? Is it also "daar"?

  •  11 місяців тому +1

    Great video! I wish it had dug a bit deeper into the phonological aspect apart from the sound shifts. I'm sure there are interesting phonological similarities in the family. You're awesome, Paul!

  • @ankita8574
    @ankita8574 3 роки тому +8

    Am an INDIAN and I can relate sanskrit and persian to each other

    • @janshigupta5605
      @janshigupta5605 3 роки тому +2

      Yaaaa sanskrit and english also have show some connections

  • @kriglakriglich7679
    @kriglakriglich7679 5 років тому +295

    I am Bosnian (Boshnyak) and my gf is from India...I am shocked to find out as now I am learning Hindi how many words we have in common. Many words in Bosnian are borrowed from Farsi, Turkish and Arabic mixed with Slavic and Germanic words. Also I found many words in Hindi which exist in Slavic language but have different meaning. While the Farsi, Turkish and Arabic words we use are the most similar as in Hindi....IndoEuropean family haha

    • @amarakbaranthony2028
      @amarakbaranthony2028 5 років тому +23

      Hindi is fake language developed to kill several indigenous language of north India. I hope it doesn't happen.

    • @adarshsingh845
      @adarshsingh845 5 років тому +42

      @@amarakbaranthony2028 fuck off anthony

    • @areez22
      @areez22 5 років тому +9

      @@amarakbaranthony2028 Promote other languages. Reduce dependency on Hindi. Advocate for other languages to be recognised as national.

    • @areez22
      @areez22 5 років тому +2

      @Nilkamal Chowdhury It is not that Hindi-speakers have only now taken up usage of Persian and Arabic words. Instead, Persian influence on the language has been important for more than 8 centuries now.

    • @embeddedprojects2336
      @embeddedprojects2336 5 років тому +12

      @@adarshsingh845 It may sound wierd but what Anthony said is true, Hindi is mere 200 years old and it was created for the purpose of making one common language throughout country. Hindi and Urdu where created from Hindustani when political situation demanded Hindi to be sanskritised and Urdu to have arabic, persian influence..

  • @micshaz
    @micshaz 3 роки тому +158

    The Vedas
    Sanskrit: वेदः vedaḥ, "knowledge"
    Danish: Viden, (Vee-Then) "knowledge"

    • @kmarcin48
      @kmarcin48 3 роки тому +30

      Polish: wiedza (vyedza) - knowledge ;)
      Also danish "vee-then' reminds me polish "wiedzieć" (vie-diet'), which means "to know"
      Greetings brother :)

    • @martintuma9974
      @martintuma9974 3 роки тому +20

      Czech: věda = science

    • @bojanstare8667
      @bojanstare8667 3 роки тому +4

      Also in Slovene are different Veda: math, phisics, biology, chemistry etc. Naravoslovne ved. Vede is plural of Veda. >For two is Vedi

    • @user-us1oh1yl1j
      @user-us1oh1yl1j 3 роки тому +9

      and in Russian (not modern) too🙄

    • @MattMangels
      @MattMangels 3 роки тому +3

      Latin "ver" for "truth" is probably related

  • @amoraks1178
    @amoraks1178 3 роки тому +2

    As an Albanian speaking some input here (although a bit late as I just discovered this great channel and Paul is fantastic). Some Albanian words in current modern Albanian that still are quite near the PIE variation are: Mbaj (to bear, Bhar); Dru (Tree, Dreu). Also Albanian still retains lots of cases - 5 cases in Standard Albanian and 7 in spoken Albanian (namely Vocative and Locative especially in the northern dialect of Gheg).

  • @runner432000
    @runner432000 Рік тому +2

    I truly enjoyed this video and the way historical migration spread a common language which unites people. I'm from India and I've always been fascinated by history and particularly how languages spread and developed. I learnt Sanskrit in school as a third language (after English and Hindi) and my mother tongue is Malayalam (the language of the South Indian state of Kerala) which is a mix of the Indo-European Sanskrit and the Dravidian Tamil, one of the most ancient languages in India.

  • @avinash_mishra91
    @avinash_mishra91 5 років тому +31

    Sanskrit - Latin(L)/Greek(G)/Arabic(A) - English
    1.Gau (meaning Cow) - Bous(G) - Cow
    2.Matr (meaning Mother) - Mater(L) - Mother
    3.Jan (meaning Generation) - Genea(G) - Gene
    4.Aksha (meaning Axis) - Axon(G) - Axis
    5.Navagatha (meaning Navigation) - Navigationem(L) - Navigation
    6.Sarpa (meaning Snake) - Serpentem(L) - Serpent
    7. Naas (means Nose) - Nasus(L) - Nose
    8.Anamika (means Anonymous) - Anonymos(G) - Anonymous
    9.Naama (means Name) - Nomen(L) - Name
    10. Manu (means First Human) - ??- Man/Men/Human
    11.Ashta (meaning Eight) - Octo(L) - Eight
    12.Barbara (meaning Foreign) - Barbaria(L) - Barbarian
    13.Dhama (meaning House) - Domus(L) - Domicile
    14.Danta (meaning Teeth) - Dentis(L) - Dental
    15.Dwar (meaning Door) - Doru - Door
    16.Dasha (meaning Ten) - Deca(G) - Deca
    17.Madhyam (meaning Medium) - Medium(L) - Medium
    18.Kaal (meaning Time) - Kalendae(L) - Calendar
    19.Kri (meaning To Do) - Creatus(L) - Create
    20.Misra (meaning Mix) - Mixtus(L) - Mix
    21.Ma (meaning Me/My) - Me(L) - Me
    22.Pithr (meaning Father) - Pater(L) - Father
    23. Bhrathr (meaning Brother) -Phrater(G) - Brother
    24. Loka (meaning Place) - Locus(L) - Locale
    25.Maha (meaning Great) - Magnus(L) - Mega
    26.Mala (meaning Dirt/Bad) - Malus(L) - Mal as in Malicious, Malnutrition, Malformed etc
    27.Makshikaa (meaning fly) - Musca(L) - Mosquito
    28.Mrita (meaning Dead) - Mortis(L) - Murder
    29.Na (meaning No) - Ne - No
    30.Nakta (meaning Night) - Nocturnalis(L) - Nocturnal
    31.Paad (meaning Foot) - Pedis(L) - Ped as in Pedestrial, Pedal etc
    32.Pancha (meaning Five) - Pente(G) - Penta, Five
    33.Parah (meaning Remote) - Pera(G) - Far
    34. Patha (meaning Path) - Pathes(G) - Path
    35.Raja / Raya (meaning King) - Regalis(L) - Royal
    36.Sama (meaning Similar) - Similis(L) - Similar
    37. Sapta (meaning Seven) - Septum(L) - Seven
    38.Sharkara (meaning Sugar) - Succarum - Sugar / Sucrose
    39.Smi (meaning Smile) - Smilen(L) - Smile
    40.SthaH (meaning Situated) - Stare(L) (meaning To Stand) - Stay
    41.Svaad (meaning Tasty) - Suavis(L) - Sweet
    42.Tha (meaning That) - Talis(L) - That
    43.Tva (meaning Thee) - Dih -Thee
    44.Vachas (meaning Speech) - Vocem(L) - Voice
    45.Vahaami (meaning Carry) - Vehere (meaning to Carry)(L) - Vehicle
    46.Vama / Vamati (meaning Vomit) - Vomere(L) - Vomit
    47.Vastr (meaning Cloth) - Vestire(L) - Vest
    48.Yauvana (meaning Youth) - Juvenilis(L) - Juvenile
    49.Narangi (meaning Orange) - Naranj - Orange
    50.Pippali (meaning Pepper) - Piperi(G) - Pepper
    51.Chandana (meaning Sandalwood) - Santalon(G) - Sandalwood
    52.Chandra (meaning Moon) - Candela(L) (meaning light / torch) - Candle
    53.Chatur (meaning Four) - Quartus(L) - Quarter
    54.Shunya (meaning Zero) - Cipher(A) - Zero
    55.Arjuna (meaning Charm of Silver) - Argentinum(L) - Argentinum - Scientific Name of Silver
    56.Nava (meaning New) - Novus(L) - Nova,New
    57.Kafa (meaning Mucus) - Coughen - Cough
    58.Mithya (meaning Lie) - Mythos(G) - Myth
    59.Thri (meaning Three) - Treis(G) - Three
    60.Mush (meaning Mouse) - Mus(L) - Mouse
    61.Maragadum (meaning Emerald) - Smaragdus(L) - Emerald
    62.Srgalah (meaning Jackal) - Shagal(Persian) - Jackal
    63. Nila (meaning Dark Blue) - Nilak(Persian) Lilac Srgalah Shagal(Persian)
    64.Man (Ma as in Malaysia) (meaning Mind) - Mens(L) - Mind
    65.Upalah (meaning Precious Stone) - Opalus(L) - Opal
    66.Vrihis (meaning Rice) - Oriza(L) - Rice
    67.Barbar (meaning stammering) - Barbaros(G) - Barbarian
    68.Jaanu (meaning knee) - Genu(L) - Knee
    69.Sunu (meaning Son or Offspring) - Sunu(German) - Son
    70.Ghas (meaning eat) - Grasa(German) - Grass
    71.Samiti (meaning Committee) - committere(L) - Committee
    72. Sama (meaning Same) - Samaz(Proto Germanic) - Same
    73.Lubh (meaning Desire) - Lubo(Latin and Proto Germanic) - Love
    74.Agni (meaning Fire) - Ignis(L) - Ignite
    75.Hrit (meaning Heart) - Herto(Proto Germanic) - Heart
    76.Yaana (meaning journey, wagon) - Wagen(German) - Van, Wagon
    77.Nara (meaning Nerve) - Nervus(L) - Nerve, Nervous
    78.They (th pronounced as in thunder, meaning they) - Dei(Germanic) - They
    79.Prati - per(L) - per
    80.Prati Shat (meaning for every hundred, i.e percent) - per centum(L) - percent

    • @PrakashSharma-ez1ce
      @PrakashSharma-ez1ce 5 років тому +3

      Very good bhai
      Do u know sanskrit ?

    • @ManhaJSalafee
      @ManhaJSalafee 4 роки тому +2

      Gene - generation
      যৌন jaino - sex, যোনি joni- vagina
      Lok at the similarities

    • @rishkavas423
      @rishkavas423 2 роки тому +3

      Wow!! So many words! I was making a project on the Indo-European Languages and you have given me a bonus! Proud to be from India & from the Indo-European Family.

    • @DevendraMahendraSingh
      @DevendraMahendraSingh 6 місяців тому

      "Aryan Invasion Theory" which later changed to "Aryan Migration Theory" has been debunked.

  • @ira1420
    @ira1420 6 років тому +77

    Reading the comments I'v noticed Balto-Slavic languages are very similar to Indo-Iranian languages

    • @keshavshah488
      @keshavshah488 6 років тому +16

      balto-Slavic and indo-Iranian are satem languages rest are centum

    • @rzeka
      @rzeka 6 років тому +1

      y Armenian and Albanian are arguably satem too

    • @Johnny3Batony
      @Johnny3Batony 5 років тому +5

      Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian are true Indo European languages. Centum are mutt languages.

    • @powerLien
      @powerLien 5 років тому +1

      von Vypierdalen evidence? sources?

    • @rzeka
      @rzeka 5 років тому

      powerLien here is an illustration of where he got his facts from: static.twentytwowords.com/wp-content/uploads/literalkids_11.jpg

  • @ukrainevolynhistory6692
    @ukrainevolynhistory6692 Рік тому +1

    Thanks, very interesting!

  • @irmaosmatos4026
    @irmaosmatos4026 3 роки тому +14

    Words for "king" in various languages:
    Latin:Rex (the romance languages have all similar cognates of it, by the way in portuguese and castillian is Rei)
    Bengali: Raja
    Nepalese: Raja
    Scottish Gaelic:Rìgh

    • @Lichfeldian--Suttonian
      @Lichfeldian--Suttonian 2 роки тому +1

      And that is also related to many other words (English):
      right, correct, rectangle, street, straight, stretch, structure ...

    • @knowledgedesk1653
      @knowledgedesk1653 2 роки тому +2

      German- Reich (Kingdom)
      English- Reign

  • @daniellincoln3744
    @daniellincoln3744 7 років тому +64

    This was so cool. Native English speaker here and I have been taking a class on Indian Epics and our professor knows Sanskrit so we've been learning a lot of basics too the connections are intense.

    • @Krishna-nu8nv
      @Krishna-nu8nv 7 років тому +3

      Daniel Lincoln Hi..As an Indian I am curious what epics you are studying..Is it all Vedas, Upanishads and stuff, or is it just Mahabharata and Ramayana?

    • @daniellincoln3744
      @daniellincoln3744 7 років тому +10

      The class is called 'Stories of South Asia' and we are reading the following texts: The Ramayana (which we have completed), the Pancatantra (which we are reading now), the Hitopadesa, the Raghuvanca, and the Kathasaritsagara. We have been using a history text called 'History of India' as context prior to each unit to base the texts in the settings they came from, like for example that the Pancatantra comes from a time of division in South Asia, while the Hitopodesa comes from a more united time. I'd love to hear what you think of those texts we studying! *Also I can't put diacritic marks with my keyboard* :(
      Also, I've studied in brief foundational texts like the Vedas and Upanishads but most of my higher level coursework has been in Buddhist Philosophy and Ethics so it has been interesting to study Hinduism in more detail.

    • @Krishna-nu8nv
      @Krishna-nu8nv 7 років тому +3

      Brilliant.. Of these the one that I have read is Ramayana and some Panchatantra tales..I've not read any of the other texts; so I don't know!!..So you have more knowledge than me!!.. But I can say that Ramayana has many versions written and adapted by many people...Valmiki's Ramayana is considered the most popular because of obvious reasons..The variations of in those multiple Ramayanas could be something that you may want to research..

    • @Krishna-nu8nv
      @Krishna-nu8nv 7 років тому +2

      Are you from the UK or US? Have you studied Sanskrit too? I couldn't study Sanskrit at school because Hindi was a compulsory subject for me, and I had to take Hindi as my third language after English and my mother tongue Malayalam..But I'm going to learn Sanskrit, hopefully in near future..

    • @Krishna-nu8nv
      @Krishna-nu8nv 7 років тому +9

      I have to say that we Indians have got the priorities wrong when it comes to Sanskrit..Even though Sanskrit is a popular subject in school, it's not compulsory... Hindi and English are compulsory... I want Sanskrit to be made compulsory and Hindi be made an optional language...Kids have to pick up three languages..Along with English and Hindi many kids choose to study their mother tongue..For such students, there is no room for Sanskrit..Only for kids with Hindi as their mother tongue, choosing Sanskrit as their third language is easy..

  • @garaj1
    @garaj1 4 роки тому +80

    I'm reminded of this one conversation I had in college several years ago with my Armenian roommate when talking to him about an Indian restaurant I went to:
    Him: So what did you have there?
    Me: Oh, I just ordered two samosas and a grilled paneer wrap.
    Him: What? How do you know Armenian?
    Me: I didn't say anything in Armenian.
    Him: Yes you did. You said you had a grilled paanir wrap...a cheese wrap, right?
    Apparently, the word for cheese in Hindi and Armenian are pretty much identical (paneer and paanir) and now that I've seen this video, I know why.
    Edit: Wow, this might be the most liked comment ive ever posted. Also to the guy who clarified that paneer is basically a persian loanword that was adopted later in time by both languages: Thank you for making this comment seem less smart. In all seriousness though, thank you for clearing that up :).

    • @kshatrapavan
      @kshatrapavan 4 роки тому +6

      Panir is actually a later Persian loanword into both Hindi and Armenian. So they are not cognates.

    • @firozpk6926
      @firozpk6926 4 роки тому +4

      And also in Kurdish it's paner
      , I know that Armenian language has 4000 common words with iranian language

    • @kacpersuski4459
      @kacpersuski4459 4 роки тому

      paneer and paanir sound a little bit like polish word 'panierka' or a verb 'panierować' which mean kinda coating in case of food.

  • @bryanulises1
    @bryanulises1 2 роки тому

    Mi cabeza explotó con esto. ¡Muchas gracias!

  • @DarMam
    @DarMam 2 роки тому +1

    OMG I been watching your videos for years and I saw a similarity but never knew to WHO. I DO SEE THE RESEMBLANCE