Modern English has many word roots in Latin and Greek, but where did the Latins and Greeks get those word roots in the first place? Did somebody just make it up out of the blue? Or did they get it from an earlier language, and if that’s true, where did they get it from?

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Modern English has many word roots in Latin and Greek, but where did the Latins and Greeks get those word roots in the first place? Did somebody just make it up out of the blue? Or did they get it from an earlier language, and if that’s true, where did they get it from?

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Answer 1

There is a lot of theories about the origin of languages. One of most common one is people reproduce sounds of the nature, reflecting them but we still don’t know how the words actually take place of the basic sounds. Because it’s too old, it’s hard to track(Around BC 700.000-300.000) and there is no data to track except the languages we know.