Re: Lithuanian v Hindi/Sanskrit

Yes that is what I mean.

Nikhil
  Doug Dee wrote:

  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


    > 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.


    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