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Comment by Richard Roman on May 7, 2012 at 21:35

Have just looked up what the word Etymology means:

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etymology

late 14c., ethimolegia "facts of the origin and development of a word," from O.Fr. et(h)imologie (14c., Mod.Fr. étymologie), from L. etymologia, from Gk. etymologia, properly "study of the true sense (of a word)," from etymon "true sense" (neuter of etymos "true, real, actual," related to eteos "true") + -logia "study of, a speaking of" (see -logy). In classical times, of meanings; later, of histories. Latinized by Cicero as veriloquium. As a branch of linguistic science, from 1640s. Related: Etymological; etymologically.

Comment by Richard Roman on May 6, 2012 at 15:36

This is a good website

http://etymonline.com/

Comment by Richard Roman on May 5, 2012 at 10:45

Most European languages actually trace back to either Latin or Greek and these trace back to Sanskrit

Here is Monier monier Williams talking about the origins of his monumental Dictionary

He writes in the introduction to the dictionary:

"Nevertheless I could not quite renounce the idea which my classical training at Oxford had forcibly impressed upon my mind - viz. that the primary object of a Sanskrit Dictionary should be to exhibit, by a lucid etymological arrangement, the structure of a language which, as most people know, is not only the elder sister of Greek, but the best guide to the structure of Greek, as well as of every other member of the Aryan or Indo-European family . A language, in short, which is the very key-stone of the science of comparative philology."