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The word "heart"
Basque Seeker:
If there was an ancient common language among humanity some clues should be remain. Most of the common words could change or mix through the ages, but maybe, just maybe we could find some clues in several nowadays words. For example, let's consider the word "heart". This word and concept is so important for humanity that sure it deserves some study. I'm pretty sure that you guys can do this much better than me, I just try to help with my two cents.
In English, the word "Heart" comes from German "Herz", but another form for the same is "Kern", that also means "Core".
And this is a very interesting root. We see that in Russian, "siertse"(сердце) also comes from german "Herz".
But once again we observe that "kern" german word exists in russian as "kern" (керн).
With the Latin root "cor", other languages' words for heart are obvious: "corazón" in Spanish, "coeur" in French or "coure" in Italian, giving just some examples. But we observe something really interesting because we can find the same root in irish, o even in japanese!
"Croí" in Irish, and "Kokoro" in Japanese.
Cor Latin
Core English
Corazón Spanish
Coeur French
Cuore Italian
Croí Irish
Kern German
Kern Russian
Kokoro Japanese
This is fun :) What do you think?
bngenoh:
Yep it is very interesting the connections between languages. The word for heart in Swahili is Roho. Just listening to the various tongues that i have encountered, basic similarities can be heard that transcend them all. It's definitely like they all sprung from the same source, and have evolved and diversified since then while still retaining elements of the source within them for those who care to look for them.
Laura:
You might enjoy reading "Babel: The Language of the 21st Century" by Abraham Abehsera - if you can find a copy.
SeekinTruth:
Language IS one of the really fascinating things to look into!
--- Quote from: Laura on February 21, 2012, 05:41:11 PM ---You might enjoy reading "Babel: The Language of the 21st Century" by Abraham Abehsera - if you can find a copy.
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I've read a bunch of quotes from that book in your books/writings, Laura. So it's another one that's hard to find, huh?
--- Quote from: Basque Seeker on February 21, 2012, 04:26:52 PM ---And this is a very interesting root. We see that in Russian, "siertse"(сердце) also comes from german "Herz".
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Hmm. In Armenian, heart is "seerd." Very close to the Russian word.
Alana:
In Greek the word for heart is kardiá [καρδιά] and of what I was able to determine it was the same word in ancient Greek too. For your collection ;)
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