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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1A related question on Latin Language: latin.stackexchange.com/questions/5455/… – jk - Reinstate Monica Dec 19 '17 at 10:11
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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1The Hindi etc. words derive from Sanskrit. dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/… – fdb May 15 '17 at 18:54
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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 '17 at 0:38
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2Look 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 '17 at 6:56
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