Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!fortune!polard From: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry Polard) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Esperanto and the origins of some in Message-ID: <4872@fortune.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 11:34:20 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.4872 Posted: Fri Jan 11 11:34:20 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 05:54:19 EST References: <1129@druny.UUCP> <10500037@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Reply-To: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry polard) Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 30 Keywords: English, Russian Esperanto Summary: Russian related to English In article <10500037@uiucdcsb.UUCP> you write: >This kind of etymology is kind of suspect. I once had a friend >(a linguist, who should have known better) try to demonstrate that >Russian was related to Latin on the basis of some similar vocabulary >between Italian and Russian. I am still not sure she could have >been serious. She was. Latin and the language that Russian, Polish, and the other Slavic languages came from were (metaphorically) cousins. The parent language is called Proto Indo-european. Look it up in a good encyclopedia. A good introduction to the family is _Indo-european Philology_ by Lockwood, pub. by Longman's. BTW, >provi try Russian: probat' - to try > related to the word "prove"? >voli will Russian: vol' - will (as in "by force of ... ") supports the relationship - prove comes from the Latin probare via Old French prover; vol- is a good Latin root for wishing or willing, and shows up e.g, in voluntary, from voluntas, choice. There's a fascinating language family out there - check it out! -- Henry Polard (You bring the flames - I'll bring the marshmallows.) {ihnp4,cbosgd,amd}!fortune!polard N.B: The words in this posting do not necessarily express the opinions of me, my employer, or any AI project.