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Actually, looking up the Sanskrit for 'work' suggests to me that I am on fairly solid ground: '√अरर्य'. transcribed as 'ararya'.
by interfixus 10y ago
Actually, looking up the Sanskrit for 'work' suggests to me that I am on fairly solid ground: '√अरर्य'. transcribed as 'ararya'.
- stevula 10y agoThat word is actually from the word for "awl" and means "to (work with) awl". There are lots of phonological coincidences in languages, which is why the methodology I was hinting at is so important.
- interfixus 10y agoI know there are. But listen, we agree on the relatedness of Slav 'rabo/robo' and Germanic 'Arbeit' (same in all Scandinavian languages), right? That relatedness very clearly suggests a very old, common Indoeuropean ancestor. Latin 'labor' really doesn't sound like an all to unikely cousin, then.