how were the words originated?

Answer 1

god only knows but they've evolved through the centuries from a series of grunts to what we have today.

Answer 2

No one really knows for sure where words and language originated. I picture two prehistoric people sitting in a cave and making noises about food or hunting! We don't know, for example, if Neanderthal man for example used language. If you want to go the biblical route in Genesis Adam was given the task of assigning names to all the plants and animals.

Read the wikipedia link and the article by Dr. Boeree... interesting reading ... and interesting question!

Answer 3

I really can't miss the opportunity to say "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God ..."

I always wondered about that. Did we really start with just one word and end up with a whole dictionary full?

Answer 4

I know one

window came from wind hole which was in the days before glass

Answer 5

probably people needed a way to talk to each other and things were much harder to explain using hand signals* (like 'hi' /ect)

(* ofcourse excluding sign language)

Answer 6

Babies say something like amma or mamma almost immediately. There's a clue.

Answer 7

Spooky, I asked this question 4 hours ago, this question didn't pop up in the linky bit at the bottom.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Anyynfkqc3VQrkDsU93gdnIgBgx.?qid=20060624060049AAWDJmu

Answer 8

by saying them and giving a meaning to them

Answer 9

It's when grunting became more refined.