Re: Lithuanian v Hindi/Sanskrit
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 13, 2003, 12:59 |
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In a message dated 9/13/2003 4:37:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
joe@WANTAGE.COM writes:
> From: "Nikhil Sinha" <nsinha_in@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 12:16 PM
> Subject: Lithuanian v Hindi/Sanskrit
>
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> > There is a Lithuanian name, Arunas. There is a similar Indian
> > (Hindi/Sanskrit) name, Arun. Arun means Sun in Hindi and Sanskrit. Does
> > Arunas mean the same in Lithuanian, as Lithuanian is closer to Indian
> > languages than any other European language.
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>
> Um, that's not actually true. Lithuanian is closer to Latvian than any
> other European language. Shortly followed, I believe, by the Slavic
> languages, and then the Indo-Aryan language(possibly actually closer to
> Germanic than them).
You seem to have interpreted the original message to mean "Lithuanian is
closer to Indian languages than Lithuanian is to any other European language."
I suspect the intended interpretation was "Lithuanian is closer to Indian
languages than any other European language is to Indian languages."
Doug
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