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  2. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Where useful, Sanskrit root forms are provided using the symbol √. For Tocharian, the stem is given. For Hittite, either the third-person singular present indicative or the stem is given. In place of Latin, an Oscan or Umbrian cognate is occasionally given when no corresponding

  3. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words of Sanskrit origin. Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the ...

  4. Mira (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Mira Lobe, an Austrian children's author in 1945. Mira is a feminine given name with varying meanings. In the Romance languages, it is related to the Latin word ''mirus'' for 'wonder' and 'wonderful'.

  5. Myra (given name) - Wikipedia

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    The name Myra was created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville 1st Barone Brooke (1554–1628). Its origins are unknown, though some speculate the created name is an anagram of the name Mary, a variant spelling of the Latin word myrrha, meaning myrrh, a fragrant resin obtained from a tree, or derived from the Latin mirari, meaning wonder, the same source from which William Shakespeare ...

  6. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    This "Greek" word is assumed to be a cognate of Latin vitulus ("calf"), although the different length of the i is a problem. The Latin vitulus is presumably derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wet-meaning "year" (hence, a "yearling": a "one-year-old calf"), although the change of e to i is unexplained. The "Greek" word, however, is ...

  7. Names for the human species - Wikipedia

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    Latin homo is derived from the Indo-European root dʰǵʰm-' earth ', as it were, ' earthling '. It has cognates in Baltic (Old Prussian zmūi), Germanic (Gothic guma) and Celtic (Old Irish duine). This is comparable to the explanation given in the Genesis narrative to the Hebrew Adam (אָדָם) ' man ', derived from a word for ' red, reddish ...

  8. Talk:List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    Yes indeed there are quite a few Sanskrit words in English. However, there are too many common words in Sanskrit and English as both are Indo-European languages and Sanskrit the older one. Example, Sanskrit to English: cut=cut, nas=nose, irm=arm, hrt=heart, naam=name, dwar=door, widhwa=widow, madium=medium, uppar=upper, charittar=character, etc.

  9. Devanagari transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit: Mahābhārata, Rāmāyaṇa, Śiva, Sāmaveda; Hindi: Mahābhārat, Rāmāyaṇ, Śiv, Sāmved; Some words may keep the final a, generally because they would be difficult to say without it: Krishna, Vajra, Maurya; Because of this, some words ending in consonant clusters are altered in various modern Indic languages as such: Mantra=mantar.