Italian words comes from Italy.\nGerman words comes from Germany.\nGreek words comes Greece.\nEtc.\n\nWhere does Latin stuff come from? (I'm thinking linguistics.)
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Latin . . . was the main written language of the Roman Empire . . . it is still the official language of the Vatican . . .
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There are certainly examples of infections being created, for example the future tenses in modern Latinate languages like French and Spanish, which were formed by adding "I have" "you have" etc to the infinitive - something like I have to go = I will go.\n\nOn the face of it, there does seem to be a trend over hundreds of years toward simplication; we see it in Latinate, Greek, Germanic, post Sanskritic, Iranian, and outside Indo-European with Arabic, and I think with Chinese (not sure about this one!).\n\nOn the other hand, it seems that the complex systems of the "classical" languages are themselves derived from much simpler systems that became more complicated as the languages evolved. Moreover, it is fairly clear that written classical languages preserved archaic forms that were already remote from common speech. Maybe it was the advent of writing, and the development of a literate elite that vied with each other to maintain essentially obsolete forms, that led to the apparent complexity of those written languages.\n\nGood question, I wait to see some other answers!
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in greek, english, irish, roman,etc. mithology.\nNo ones proven their not here no ones proven their not.
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'north' is from Proto-Germanic *norð (of unknown origin); 'south' is from Proto-Germanic *sunð (possibly from Proto-Germanic *sunnon 'sun' + -ð); 'east' is from Proto-Germanic *austo- from Proto-Indo-European *aus- 'dawn'; 'west' is from Proto-Germanic *westaz from Proto-Indo-European *wes- 'evening'
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first question:  I believe it is in the genes.  You either "get" words, or you don't\n\nSecond question (saved 2 points good for you)  I don't believe they do.  I'm not really sure what you mean.
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Word origin.\n\nEtymology &#92;Et`y*mol"o*gy&#92; (-j[y^]), n.; pl. Etymologies\n   (-j[i^]z). [L.etymologia, Gr. 'etymologi`a; 'e`tymon etymon +\n   lo`gos discourse, description: cf. F. ['e]tymologie. See\n   Etymon, and -logy.]\n   1. That branch of philological science which treats of the\n      history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive\n      significance, and changes of form and meaning.\n      [1913 Webster]\n\n   2. That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the\n      form of the words in a language; inflection.\n      [1913 Webster]
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It came from the word "Melita," which the Romans dubbed it. Melita is the Greek word for "honey."
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Any good college dictionary can give you the etymology of a word. A lot of scientific names come from Greek and Latin. I recommend Merriam Webster, but the Oxford Unabridged is a good source, too. But either way, expand your vocabulary. Having a good command of Greek and Latin roots will improve your spelling and give you a lot of insights into what many words in the English language mean, not just scientific terms.
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It was the language spoken in Latium, the region around Rome, which became predominant first in Italy, then throughout the then known world because of the conquests Rome made.\nLike any other Indo-European language it came from Central Asia with the earliest farmers, who spread west, and absorbed the local tribes of hunter-gatherers, taking up part of their language and accent, thus forming first local dialects, then with persistent separation for long periods those developed into different languages.
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yes, there actually very similar, as are all romance languages (languages derived from Latin), such as spanish, french, italian, and romanian. there simmiler in vocabulary, alphabet, and spelling.
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From my limited knowledge of both languages, I'd say that it was Latin.
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Can't be done.  You'd have to say what origins you are including, not just which ones you are excluding.  There's really no such thing as English, historically speaking.  That's a comparatively recent development.  All the way back to way before Chaucer, which is used as an exercise in reading really old English, there was Latin mixed in.  There were words from Celtic, Angles, Saxons, and plenty of others.  You're about a thousand years too late to sort them out now.
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imagine france is cut in two part, north and south : the french of the north seems to be freez like a german or an english, the french of the south is like a italian or a spanish poepl, before u date him/her ask where she/he come from...
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Let me answer you..Firstly,I would recommend you to examine some books and other sources in order to achieve a clearest view..Neither Ancient Greek nor Modern Greek has anything similar with Italian language,respectively Latin. Moreover, they differ in language dramatically,having also totally different Alphabets too. As to the history and culture both are very influential and worth..but similar no..Check some more,it's interesting..Luck!  PS: I have no clue why so many people completely ignorent answer to that question..
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Germany, nameDeutschland, Germany, L'Allemagne, Alemania, La Germania, Saksa and the sources of all these names!\nThere was a post on rec.travel.europe today that got me thinking about the name of the country I'm going to, and decided to do some research. Thanks to the Word Nerds, I even have some sources for it.\n\nAnyway the post this morning, posted by David Horne, on rec.travel.europe said:\n\n\n\n"German deutsch is from Old High German diutisg and Low German theodisc, meaning "of the people," which comes from an Indo-European root, teuta-, meaning "tribe" or "clan." This became tuath "people" in Old Irish and\ntheod "people, nation in Old English." \n\n\nThe Italian tedesco comes from this root, as do the Swedish word tysk and the English word Dutch, which formerly was applied to all Germans, but gradually came to refer only to those Germanic people who inhabit\nwhat is now the Netherlands"\n\n\n\n\nDavid's source is livejournal.com. The full article, on Etymology of the various names for the people of the area of Germany, from all kinds of languages, is at http://www.livejournal.com/community/linguaphiles/344988.html\n\nEtymonline.com, which is the source that both the Word Nerds and leo.org suggest for English Etymology.\n\nThe names are all names of people in that area of central Europe which comprised a bunch of tribes for many years. Indeed the current borders of Germany will be only 15 years old when I am over there in early October. It almost seems like people call the country by the name of the tribe they came in contact with the mosts. \n\n"Germany" comes from Latin and date back to Julius Caeser. Etymonline traces the etymology back to Celtic words Noisy (garim) or neighbor (gair), while Live Journal's linguaphiles identify spear-man, or gari+mann as possible eymologies. Note that some version of the Germania version of the name of the country is used in Italian (La Germania), Hebrew ("germanit"), Hindi (jarman),a dn Indonesian (jerman) according to Live Journal. \n\nThe French/Spanish version of the name of the country (L'Allemagne, Alemania), according to etymonline AND the linguaphiles comes from a tribe in the southwest corner of Germany, Alsace, and Switzerland. It could come from a word meaning all men, "Alamanniz" (precursor to "alle Männer). or come from "Allobroges" which means "foreign men" and may refer to the fact that this tribe moved into an area previously occupied by different people.\n\nDeutsch (and ultimately Deutschland) makes its appearance in 1380 according to etymonline, and comes from the ancestor languge of German, duit-isc, or teodisc (note consonant shift, from the t to the d). It means people, community, country. Diutusklant, the predecessor of Deutschland, was, according to etymonline, in use from the 13th century. \n\nTeutonic feels like it should be related to these, but it refers to a tribe on the coast of Germany, although at some point it probably shared the same root and also means people. (How many countries do you think have called themselves "the people?"\n\nI note that the Livejournal linguaphiles also address the roots of slavic names for Germany, but I'm tired, and I'm not going into that. You can read it yourself. \n\nd Deutschland in the German language
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Comb is actually derived from an Old High German word that existed only in verb form (kamb) and the "b" was only pronounced when conjugated I comb (Ich kambe) You comb (Du kambest) . . . . and so on.  When it became a noun, the plural was made by adding an "e" and not an "s".  During those days, all words ending in consonants had no breath released after they were pronounced, and as "b" is a vocalized consonant, it is impossible to pronounce a b when followed by an m if it is the last consonant of a word.  Scholars believe that the word was introduced to the Germans when Greek members of the Roman armies entered Germany, as the greek word for "pin" is gamphos.\n\nHome comes from the Old German (heim) which is actually derived from an adverb.  This concept survives today as we say "I am going home" rather than "I am going to home".\n\nSo the answer actually has to do with both parts of speech and with the way the pronunciation of the English language has changed over the centuries.
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What year are you taking?  You might try playing Scrabble using only Latin words, depending on the size of your vocabulary.  Or you could play something like Catchphrase, using a timer and substituting Latin words for English.  Unfortunately, there's not a lot out there tailored specifically to Latin.  Maybe a game like Boggle, making only Latin words.  Are you only interested in the language, or the culture as well?  Maybe you could do something using the gods and godesses, historical figures, inventions, the political system, or architectural structures.  The Romans were very advanced for their time; there are lots of possibilities.