Languages are group of particular words used to call particular object these names and word started evolution 1 million year ago. Languages with complete grammatical words existed 3000 year B.C. A word, like a gene, will travel and prevail according to its usefulness. A word's fitness to survive may derive from being attached to a desirable new invention or substance, The term Etymology is defined as the study of the origins of words i.e. etymology of a word refer to as the history of that word linguistically or how old a word is how that word created and of what parts it comprises of. Like the etymology itself is an ancient Greek word consist of two parts etymon meaning "the true sense of a word" and logia, which means "doctrine, study" which on combination gives us “the of the true sense of words” or may also be called as “meaning” With the passage of time languages evolve certain new words are created and adopted from other languages many of them also become obsolete or old fashioned. The Old English word modor with the passage of time became the Middle English mode which then after sometime eventually became the modern English mother. Similarly like Cheetah is a Hindi word adapted later by English which means a kind of Indian leopard. Now there are certain families of languages some are ancient languages, present languages and dead languages (languages which are not spoken today but do exist like Latin). English belongs to a family of the Indo-European Language Family, and includes Greek, French, Russian, Hindi, German, Irish, and many other languages of Asia and Europe. Linguists have already proved the fact that languages are related to one another by using cognates. These Cognates are related words in other languages.
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