German - Maus
Dutch - Muis
Swedish - Musen
Russian - myš’
Czech - Myš
Polish - Mysz
Bulgarian - miškata
Slovenian - Miška
Samskritam मूषिकः । Mushika | Mushaka
Of Men, Mice & Languages!
Inspired by the thread below, I am pleased to share the fruits of my labour!😀
Presenting my AMT - Aryan Mouse Theory*!
आर्यमिश्रान् विज्ञापयामि अस्मिन् विषये।
While this may seem in jest, the data👇🏼shown is all valid
[*channeling my inner Witzel}
This is my attempt. I guess, one can clearly see lexical cognates, but the morphology is rather different.
— S\u0101\u0301mapriya\u1e23 \U00010a2f\U00010a0c\U00010a28\U00010a24\U00010a3f\U00010a2a\U00010a01\U00010a29\U00010a0f \U00011032\U00011038\U0001102b\U00011027\U00011046\U0001102d\U0001103a\U0001102c\U00011002 (@samopriya) January 24, 2022
Lithuanian:
Di\u1ebdvas d\xe3v\u0117 m\xf9ms dant\xecs, di\u1ebdvas d\xfaos m\xf9ms d\xfaon\u0105.
Sanskrit:
D\u0113v\u1e53 dada\xfa n\u014d d\xe1nt\u0101, d\u0113v\u1e53 d\u0101sy\xe1ti n\u014d d\u02b0\u0101n\u0101\u0301m.
\u0926\u0947\u0952\u0935\u094b \u0926\u0952\u0926\u094c \u0928\u094b\u0952 \u0926\u0928\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0951, \u0926\u0952\u0935\u094b \u0926\u093e\u0952\u0938\u094d\u092f\u0924\u093f\u0951 \u0928\u094b\u0952 \u0927\u093e\u0952\u0928\u093e\u092e\u094d\u0964 https://t.co/uLlnGmioNv
German - Maus
Dutch - Muis
Swedish - Musen
Russian - myš’
Czech - Myš
Polish - Mysz
Bulgarian - miškata
Slovenian - Miška
Samskritam मूषिकः । Mushika | Mushaka
In fact, total list may be 100+ languages!
Quite remarkable!
But why?
Mice & humans in fact, go a long way back
The history of origin & spread of Mouse is an important clue to the spread of human beings & languages
२ 10,000 years ago had split to 4 populations with non-overlapping range in India
३ Mouse started commensalism only after agricultural communities started
४ domesticus spread to fertile crescent
५ musculus spread to China
६ 4000 BP ->Europe
It originates from मुष - a “thief”, someone who steals grains & food!
मूष्णाति द्रव्याणि इति। Steals things😀
मूष् in Paninian धातुः (word root) system comes from मुषँ स्तेये।
स्तेन->steal
Very ancient!
In fact, it is mentioned in the Rg Veda
“As mice eat threads”!
Texts that are clearly prior to 500 BCE
Ramayanam, Mahabharatam, SusrutaSamhita etc
Mice & agricultural communities go together
Since mice originated in India, its important to understand origins of Indian agriculture
India shows agriculture from 9000BCE!
It is likely that original Indian farming communities were the first to give the name मूषक to “mouse” given the stealing skills they experienced first hand!
Where Indians went, mice also went
The संस्कृतम् word Arya originates from ऋ गतौ (to go, flow etc)
It means cultured/noble
It is also connected to ‘Cultivate/Agriculture/Irrigation’ etc.
In fact one of the meanings for Arya is Trader/Farmer!
अर्यः = वैश्यः।कृषकः।
Many pundits have written about Arya & Agriculture/Trading
Sediyapu Krishna Bhat’s theory on the connection between Arya & Agriculture {‘Arable’} 👇🏼
https://t.co/6AzIWoT0SP
Now, the word "irrigation" itself, along with other related words in Indo-European languages: \u03b3\u03b5\u03c9\u03c1\u03b3\u03af\u03b1 (agriculture), arable, area etc. point to a common root.
— vakibs (@vakibs) February 18, 2019
This is possibly the Sanskrit root : \u221a\u1e5b (to flow) from the verbal roots (Dh\u0101tup\u0101\u1e6dha) of P\u0101\u1e47ini.
\u221a\u1e5b+nyat = \u0100ryam.
Direction of movement of mice is OUT OF INDIA & follows human migration patterns
मूषिकः is a conserved word across many languages
मूषिक is attested in Rg Veda
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