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in reply to a message by noro226
I think your argument, in essence, goes like this: "Notice that word or name A in language X is similar to word or name B in language Y. Could they be related?"
If you ask me the answer to this is: Maybe, but impossible to decide looking only at the words or names themselves. You need more evidence. Such a similarity is not even enough to say "probably" instead of "maybe".
I love to browse through the "Online Etymological Dictionary" from time to time, to be found at:
http://www.etymonline.com/
You can find many wonderful examples there of both kinds: Words that surprisingly are nearly identical in languages that are quite far apart (because they were somehow preserved during language evolution), and words that look and sound quite different but are clearly related nevertheless.
By the way, if you are at it, maybe also have a look at the Indo-European language family. That's an *awfully* large and diverse language group!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
Rene www.BabyNames.ch
If you ask me the answer to this is: Maybe, but impossible to decide looking only at the words or names themselves. You need more evidence. Such a similarity is not even enough to say "probably" instead of "maybe".
I love to browse through the "Online Etymological Dictionary" from time to time, to be found at:
http://www.etymonline.com/
You can find many wonderful examples there of both kinds: Words that surprisingly are nearly identical in languages that are quite far apart (because they were somehow preserved during language evolution), and words that look and sound quite different but are clearly related nevertheless.
By the way, if you are at it, maybe also have a look at the Indo-European language family. That's an *awfully* large and diverse language group!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
Rene www.BabyNames.ch
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