THE DISCOVERY OF SANSKRIT

Sanskrit is a language of ancient India, was one of the language of the group. This was first suggested in the latter part of eighteenth cebtury abd fully established by the beginning of the nineteenth.

Example

English word Sanskrit

Brother bhrãtar

Compare the following forms of the verb to be:

Old English Gothic Latin Greek Sanskrit

Eom (am) im sum eimi asmi

Eart (art) is es ei asi

Is (is) ist est esti asti

Sindon (are) sijum sumus semen smas

Sindon (are) sijub estis este stha

Sindon (are) sind sunt eisi santi

The Sanskrit forms particularly permit us to see that at one time this verb had the same endings (mi, si, ti, mas, tha, nti) as were employed in the present tense of other verb, e.g.:

Sanskrit

Dádãmi dídõmi

Dádãsi dídõs

Dádãti dídõsi

Dadmás dádote

Datthá dídote

Dada (n) ti didóãsi