Languages such as Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, Italian, German, as well as earlier forms of these languages.
2006-09-04 12:30:29 · 5 answers · asked by Bob 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I'm not sure what you mean by "the oldest words." Words have history, yes, but often their earliest forms wouldn't be recognizable to modern speakers--"Cyngas" doesn't look much like "king," for instance, but that's where our modern word came from.
This page:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/IEroots.html
from the American Heritage Dictionary is a list of root words reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European, a language that was spoken as far back as 10,000 years ago. Each entry also mentions what those roots eventually became in modern languages--include all the ones listed in your question. I hope that's old enough for you.
2006-09-04 13:50:49 · answer #1 · answered by Mekamorph 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess that is "grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" in every language. This is quite international. hehehe
2006-09-04 12:36:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
words for body parts
2006-09-04 12:33:40 · answer #3 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no statistics for you but I'd guess "yes", "no" and "me".
2006-09-04 12:39:54 · answer #4 · answered by john b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chav, chavette, cheese-boffler they're all quite old
2006-09-05 04:31:49 · answer #5 · answered by hrvatski 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋