Word Origins
Dedicated to finding real origins of words in several languages
A, a
Very first letter in all European languages
Origin
a is the first letter in all Indian languages. All have one case.
A, a is the first letter in Russian. It has upper and lower cases.
The Transition
From Indian a to Arabic alif (1700 B.C), Hebrew aleph (circa 1700 B.C), Phoenician aleph (1600 B.C) and Greek Alpha (800 B.C)
back to Roman and English A, a
Indian spoken sounds are tens of thousands of years old. Their age is based on the cave art and paintings at Altamira, Fort de Gaume, Les Trois Freres and Lascaux near the Pyrenees Mountains and Willendorf in Austria. Some of the findings at Lascaux Cave have been Carbon-14 dated to be 15,000 years old. Carbon-14 method is good for determining age upto70, 000 years.
Pyrenees Mountains are located in Western Europe between France and Spain. Basque people speaking an ancient language called euskara, French and Spaniards live in the vicinity of these mountains. We will show that all the above languages, euskara, Spanish and French have origins in India. Most linguists call euskara an ‘isolate’ language meaning that it is not related to any language on our earth. That is because they never looked at Indian languages.
More on Carbon-14 dating in Carbon
A, a
Very first vowel in all European languages
Origin
a is the first vowel in all Indian languages
long aa is the second vowel in all Indian languages
a
ending to indicate feminine nouns
Origin
Most Indian feminine names end in a
Examples
Radha
Sita
Suchitra
This practice is followed in most languages
Arabic Ayisha
Hebrew Sara
German Monika
Greek Thea
English Barbara
A, a
meaning ‘one’
Origin
Indian Sanskrit eka ‘one’
English
Sanskrit ka is dropped resulting in plain a
a
symbol for old units of measurement are and ares, modern acre
Origin
Indian Tamil ayr ‘plough’
a-
English prefix meaning ‘not’ as in apolitical ‘not political’
Origin
Indian Sanskrit prefix a- ‘not’
Examples
Indian Sanskrit a- ‘not’ + Indian Sanskrit mrt ‘death’ = Indian Sanskrit amrit ‘elixir’
Indian Sanskrit a- ‘not’ + Indian Sanskrit surah ‘God’ = Indian Sanskrit asurah ‘demon’, ‘not God’
Comments
Indian Sanskrit amrit ‘elixir’ is the origin for Italian Amaretto, a popular liqueur.
a (preposition)
meaning ‘per’
Example
English ‘ten cents a dance’
Origin
Indian Sanskrit eka ‘one’
English
Sanskrit ka is dropped resulting in plain a
See our previous edition
http://wordorigins.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/hello-world/
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