So it seems like there’s quite a bit of words in Old Chinese that could have origins in an Indo-European language. There are many more examples, I just listed a couple. Ones I didn’t list, such as 社 and 祇 (earth god, OC *[g.d]e) might be related to gaia, are pretty interesting too. Hanji OC M…

[image] Whatevah: If you want to connect Chinese to inIndo-European it makes more sense to find similar words to Indian or Iranian languages While that’s true, and there are plenty of Indic/Iranian loan words in Chinese through Buddhism, those linguistic exchange didn’t take place until Middl…

[image] Hanna: Is this your area of research? no, I’m just a historical linguistics hobbyist.

I think the word 駒 *[k]ˤ(r)ok-s is a cognate with the Indo-European *ḱr̥sós

Hanji OC MC Taigi PIE OE English Comment 駒 *[k]ˤ(r)ok-s kuwH ku *ḱr̥sos hors horse 蜜 *mit mjit bi̍t *médʰu medu mead honey As per suggestion, updated the ekhwos and medhu cognates.

Other possible cognates: 犬 and canine 軒 and car 卒 (*[ts]ut) and die (*dheu-), as in tod in German 軲轆(*gukluk) and wheel (*kʷékʷlos) 輪 and run

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I left a comment, though approval is required. So I’ll share my thoughts here. For the Gao Lishi stele, the Chinese description had quotes around “backwards”, but the English description does not. The Chinese description seems to acknowledge that the concept of backward or modern is a human impo…

Wonderful comment. The history from the stele is fascinating. I fully agree on the unfortunate decision to uniformly translate 民族 as national in the English version cited. I would have chosen “ethnicity” in many of the cases if I’d been translating directly.

[image] spaint: I fully agree on the unfortunate decision to uniformly translate 民族 as national in the English version cited. I would have chosen “ethnicity” in many of the cases if I’d been translating directly. You have to consider the historical context of 民族/nation. For most of history b…

Just thought of another possibility. Hanji OC MC Taigi PIE OE English Comment 轉 *tronʔ trjwenX tńg *terə turnian turn

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