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Are all the words above from the same root (PIE)? Or are these a bunch of false cognates like behtar (Farsi) better (English).

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Latin vir, Sanskrit vīra-, Avestan vīra-, Old Irish fer, Lithuanian výras, Gothic wair, all mean “man” and all derive from Indo-European *wīro- (or *uiH-ro).

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  • Ok, But what about Hindi and Punjabi?
    – WiccanKarnak
    May 15, 2017 at 16:55
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    The Hindi etc. words derive from Sanskrit. dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/…
    – fdb
    May 15, 2017 at 18:54
  • But, Hindi has borrowed a lot and so has Punjabi, from Urdu and other languages, also is it necessary that all words derive from Sanskrit?
    – WiccanKarnak
    May 16, 2017 at 0:38
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    Look at the link I gave to Turner’s dictionary. In Hindi bīr is the genuine New Indo-Aryan form; vīr is a loan (tatsama) from Sanskrit.
    – fdb
    May 16, 2017 at 6:56
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    Also English were(wolf).
    – Anton Sherwood
    May 16, 2017 at 19:15

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