PROTO INDO EUROPEAN




Yeah! You heard that right, its a mystery why this word has retained its root form for thousands of years…

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Proto Indo-European - h₁widʰéwh₂


English - Widow


Gothic - widuwō


Latin - vidua


Sanskrit - vidhávā


Iranian - vidhávā


Russian - vdova


Old Prussian - widdewū (Representing the Baltics)


Welsh - gweddw


Western Frissian - widdo


Belarussian - udava


Spanish - viuda


Marathi - vidhavā


So….. and so many more but can anyone please give me an explanation on why this word has retained such a recognizable form even though its not like other cognates??


Maybe I accidentally found the most retained phrase in IE too…


English - You are a Widow


Old English - Thou art Widow


Hindi - Tu vidhava hai


Latin - Tu vidua es


Marathi - Tu vidhava ahes


Ain’t it honestly fascinating??


ANOTHER  PIE  WORD  STAN


The surprisingly unchanged ancient PIE, protoIndoEuropean root stahn, is still commonly used in many languages.


SLAVIC


In Bosnian stan is a flat to stay in. It is the same with its Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian manifestations.


In Bulgarian to stand is stoya.


In Russian the word stoyat is exactly that.


In Czech stoyan and stani both come from the same PIE root.


GERMANIC


In English, most common of Germanic languages, to stand comes from the PIE root.


German has the verbs stehen and standen are from the same root.


Icelandic is standa and Swedish is stå.


ROMANCE


Status in English is from the Latin word that is a derivation from the PIE origin. So is the English loan word stance. So is instantaneous, a bit more derived of the old word.


Spanish estar, postura or estante are from the same root too.


Status Quo instantenously posted its stance as I stood by is like a Peter Sellars movie when he plays all characters himself.


IRANIAN


Of course in Avesta Persian it is standing or place too.


That is why we have stan ending countries, regions, towns and locations. Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan.


BALTIC


Stoveti is the Lithuanian for standing.


GREEK


In modern Greek stasi, istama, stekoma, come from the old root histan, which is from the PIE.


EDIT: INDIAN


User-12999503280918730479 says that in Indo-Aryan languages the meaning of Sthan is the same.


If you say that the PIE for existence or to be has similar origin as to stand, then the vocabulary grows. German ist and English is, Slavic ste, Romance estas, Farsi است or est, and many others also interlock. But they insist that is another root, which I am not convinced.


I have a theory that the name Istanbul, or formerly Stan+poli, comes from the good old PIE staying. (I know the recent “to the city” theory which is hardly convincing to say the least.)


NOTE: Having said that, there is no PIE, Proto Indo European, or a romantic good Arian race core who used to have a romantic pastoral life and suddenly over-bred and set up the world. PIE is a reconstruction of an imaginary language based on had there been such a single root people. There probably wasn’t and the languages spread, developed and affected each other organically. So by referring to PIE it is not a real language or some seed civilisation but the relationship between IE languages.

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