The Indo-European Connection

This video is about the Indo-European languages and the connections between them, going all the way back to Proto-Indo-European.

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Music:
"Dark Lotus" by MK2.
Outro: "Garden Walk" by Jingle Punks.

[mihanich]

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".

[seeda.]

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

[Crichi]

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

[starprince]

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

[BangMaster]

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

[daakuredpanda]

Just noticed this very strange similarity -

German : Volks Wagon
English : Folks Wagon
Hindi/Sanskrit : Lok Wahan

[tinylunaticinahugeworld]

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

[EstebanJavornik]

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.

[Ida-xepg]

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

[timmehh]

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

[Raj__]

Sanskrit : ghass
English :grass


Sanskrit : Dwar
English : Door


Sanskrit : Madhyam
English : Medium


And many other

[chiaranapolitano]

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

[mellamoem]

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.

[fuenareva]

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

[deepsikhaborah]

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

[siddhantchauhan]

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

[pestylenz]

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

[dragonchickenfajitas]

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

[kushagraverma]

I never saw this friendly comment section in my whole life

Its like every person on earth sharing brotherhood....

[nikhils]

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