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Ankesh,

Thanks for tossing this in.

Ages ago I saw a doco on words. And the HasBeen Drips Under Pressure (Experts) has traced back our First word for water as being Aqua.

Now, assuming those Scientists who study Mitopchindrial DNA are correct, we All came from the same tribe somewhere in Africa. Hence, all our languages have their Root in that First language. And, just like the Pitcan Islanders, we bastardise our first language into Similar Sounding, but Different words. Hence, the reason why the word for Mother has a similarness about it no matter which Language you look at.

There are also Groups of Languages - such as the Germanic Familiy of Languages.

Another Doco showed how the Chinese Written Language was originally formed. When Emperor Thingy wouold write a Character on a plaque that could be carried around. And as his Troops marches along, all day they saw the new Character on a plaque on the back of the soldier in front. And how the Characters are Abstract representations of the real - such as how the character for Man sort of looks like a Man.

Going back... why we should ahve chosen words like Aqua and something similar to Mother, and other such words is really Unanswerable. We just did. Welcome to that state of ISNESS once again.

Michael Ross