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    Over the years, I have noticed that there are lots of Hindi words that sound similar to English. What I’m trying to figure out is if the Hindi words derived from English during the British empire, or did the English words derive from Sanskrit since it’s a much older language. Maybe some words are just a coincidence.

    Hindi l English

    Me (Me/I)
    Naam (Name)
    Uppar (Up/Upstairs)
    Ma (Mom)
    Na/Nahi (No)
    Tamatar (Tomato)
    Dollat (Dollar/money/wealth)
    Beytar (Better)
    Kona (Corner)
    Wah! (Wow!)
    Darjan (Dozen)
    Daraaz (Drawer)
    Taana (Taunt)
    Badnaam (To insult/make name bad)
    Kamarband (Waist band)
    Ant (End)
    Kapre (Capri)
    Patloon (Pantaloons)
    Shakar (Sugar)


    Spanish/Portuguese l Hindi

    Tu (Tu)
    Pantalones (Patloon)
    Peso (Paise)
    Camesa (Kameez)
    Jabon (Sabun)
    Naranja (Narangi)
    Armario (Almari)

    Numbers:

    English l Hindi l Spanish

    One (Ek) Uno
    Two (Do) Dos
    Three (Teen) Tres
    Four (Chaar) Cuatros
    Five (Paanch) Cinco
    Six (Che) Seis
    Seven (Saat) Siete
    Eight (Aat) Ocho
    Nine (Nau) Nueve
    Ten (Dus) Diez
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    Indo-European, buddy

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    All well and good, but they are in sore need of a nominative "I", what with this me-meeing baby talk of theirs. Sanskrit has "aham" in case they're interested in improvement.

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    Those worlds have Arabic origin and all arabic dialects use it (Pantalones>>pantalone, Camesa>> cames, Sabun, Shakar , Darjan>>darzan).

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    Albanian has emer (vowels sound like gender) for name. I wonder if it's similar to any language as it's different from the usual name (nomen). I see slavs have ime

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    I recognize some of these words.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dick View Post
    Indo-European, buddy
    It’s surprising some words have managed to stay some over thousands of years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breathe View Post
    Over the years, I have noticed that there are lots of Hindi words that sound similar to English. What I’m trying to figure out is if the Hindi words derived from English during the British empire, or did the English words derive from Sanskrit since it’s a much older language. Maybe some words are just a coincidence.
    Mere coincidence. Hindi-Farsi split from a common source language spoken just before 2,000 BC. Farsi and Hindi are actually more similar than English and Hindi.

    Hindi/Urdu (and maybe other Indian languages) also borrow heavily from Persian or Arabic via Persian. The Persian language used by the Central Asian dynasties ruling India for the most part of the second millennium, and which served as a superstratum for the North Indian dialect continuum, had itself undergone a process of heavy borrowing from Arabic (which might also be considered a superstratum).

    In everyday Hindi and Urdu: son is betaa – used all the time. The word is of Sanskrit etymology but has no Persian cognate (of course some dialects use putr, for which of course has a Persian cognate).

    However, words like Asman (sky) and function words like "agar", "Roz" and "magar" have 100% Persian etymons. The same for adjectives like "khoob" and pronouns like "khud", Arabic lexical roots outnumber originally Persian lexical roots is due to the fact that terms for abstract concepts cross linguistically tend to be borrowed from superstratum languages, and in Muslim ruled societies the quintessential superstratum language is Arabic, regardless of whether or not there is an intermediary language (Persian in this case).

    It also happens in Turkish, where Arabic lexical roots outnumber Persian ones, even though most of those very same Arabic loanwords were absorbed into the language via Persian, as evidenced by their phonological and semantic evolution (Turkic tribes were introduced to Muslim culture through contact with Persians rather than with Arabs).

    Also, the numbering in German is more closer to Sanskrit in the sense that the units digit comes before the tens digit when speaking.

    So, 21 = einundzwanzig (ein + zwanzig) [und = and].

    In English and almost all other branches like Romance, Slavic etc. they come in the opposite order.

    So, 21 = twenty-one = veintiuno (veinte + uno).

    That doesn't mean that German and Sanskrit are particularly close, it just means they are closer to each other than either is to Vietnamese.
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    English l Hindi

    Cut ———— Kaat
    Papaya ———— Papita

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breathe View Post
    Papaya ———— Papita
    Papaya comes from Caribe indians, I would say it joined the Hindi vocabulary in modern times.

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