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What follows is list of some curious word origins. Some of these are English, but some are French and German words from which we get some English words. Enjoy, and please let me know if you know of any other cool etymologies that I ought to add to the list! Also, I run a mailing list called RT where I send out some new, interesting etymologies that I discover every month (and other, ...

SANSCRIT ETYMOLOGICAL SOURCES Publisher and Distributor: SHREE GANGA PUSTAKALAYA TRILOCHAN, VARANASI, BHARAT Order this book Online from Foreign Media. Com While browsing through Bhargava's Concise English Dictionary , I could not help but notice the huge number of Hindi/Sanscrit words, linking to other languages in the Indo-European family. In many cases, these links provided the actual source, ...