Similarities between Sanskrit and Lithuanian languages

I discovered this only recently. There is a lot similarity between Sanskrit, the mother of all Indian languages and Lithuanian, not that well-known among European languages. Of course, I accept current version of Indo-European languages common history, i.e. all of them originated from a Proto-Indo-European source. Many English words are exactly similar to Hindi words even though the British came to India only in the 16th century. But, this article struck me very much. It claims even PHRASES are common between Sanskrit and Lithuanian.

I've studied Sanskrit for 5 years and was astonished to find similarity between Sanskrit and Lithuanian. I want someone here to confirm whether these phrases are exactly same in Lithuanian as I learnt from research.

1. THE WOLF STANDS
Sanskrit: vŕk-as tiśthati
Lithuanian: vilk-as stóvi

2. THE WOLF'S MOTHER
Sanskrit: vŕk-asya mātā
Lithuanian: vilk-o mótina

3.(HE) GIVES TO THE WOLF
Sanskrit: dá-dāti vrk-āya
Lithuanian: dúoda vilk-ui

4.(HE) SEES THE WOLF
Sanskrit: paśyati vrk-am
Lithuanian: mãto vilk-ą

5. Sanskrit: as-mi 'I am'
Lithuanian: es-ù(older es-mi)

6. Sanskrit: asi 'thou art'
Lithuanian: es-ì(<*es-si)

7. Sanskrit: as-ti 'he, she, it is'
Lithuanian: &#7869;s-ti 'there is'

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All of your Lithuanian phrases are absolutely correct. I couldn't read #7 though, so I can't comment on that one. Otherwise, "puiku!" (perfect).

K.

Woohi wrote:

I discovered this only recently. There is a lot similarity between Sanskrit, the mother of all Indian languages and Lithuanian, not that well-known among European languages. Of course, I accept current version of Indo-European languages common history, i.e. all of them originated from a Proto-Indo-European source. Many English words are exactly similar to Hindi words even though the British came to India only in the 16th century. But, this article struck me very much. It claims even PHRASES are common between Sanskrit and Lithuanian.
I've studied Sanskrit for 5 years and was astonished to find similarity between Sanskrit and Lithuanian. I want someone here to confirm whether these phrases are exactly same in Lithuanian as I learnt from research.
1. THE WOLF STANDS
Sanskrit: v&#341;k-as ti&#347;thati
Lithuanian: vilk-as stóvi
2. THE WOLF'S MOTHER
Sanskrit: v&#341;k-asya m&#257;t&#257;
Lithuanian: vilk-o mótina
3.(HE) GIVES TO THE WOLF
Sanskrit: dá-d&#257;ti vrk-&#257;ya
Lithuanian: dúoda vilk-ui
4.(HE) SEES THE WOLF
Sanskrit: pa&#347;yati vrk-am
Lithuanian: mãto vilk-&#261;
5. Sanskrit: as-mi 'I am'
Lithuanian: es-ù(older es-mi)
6. Sanskrit: asi 'thou art'
Lithuanian: es-ì(<*es-si)
7. Sanskrit: as-ti 'he, she, it is'
Lithuanian: &#7869;s-ti 'there is'
8.

The similarities between sanscrit and lithuanian languages are known, at least for lithuanian researches, for a very long time. Can't recall the name of russian author, but he had a book about lithuanian language and claimed that by knowing lithuanian language and by applying correct rules you could read and understand sanscrit. Also it's claimed that lithuanian language is in top10 living ancient languages (indo-european family tree, but totaly separate Baltic group of languages, mostly extinct). It's very interesting to see that people from india noticed that as well :)

Kubilius wrote:

Can't recall the name of russian author, but he had a book about lithuanian language and claimed that by knowing lithuanian language and by applying correct rules you could read and understand sanscrit.

Thank you for your answer. It will be interesting to verify what you just mentioned. Can any Lithuanian on here try their hands in understanding this random Sanskrit Shloka (verse)? Could you have understood this without English translation? Please let me know.

/*I've translated each word in English*/
/*Theme: DECRIPTION OF THE IMMORTAL SOUL, ATMAH*/

NAI-NAM CHIN-DAN-TI SHAS-TRAA-NI;
NO DAMAGE (USING) WEAPONS;

NAI-NAM DEH-TI PA-WA-KAH;
NO BURNING (USING) FIRE;

NAA CHAI-NAM KLED-YEN-TYAPO;
NO FLOODING (USING) WATER;

NAA SHOSH-YATI MAA-ROOT-AH.
NO DRYING (USING) WIND.

I'll write that in one-word format again. Tell me if there are similar words in Lithuanian.

NAINAM CHINDANTI SHASTRAANI;
NO DAMAGE (USING) WEAPONS;

NAINAM DEHTI PAAWAK(AH);
NO BURNING (USING) FIRE;

NAA CHAINAM KLEDYENTYAPO;
NO FLOODING (USING) WATER;

NAA SHOSHYATI MAAROOT(AH).
NO DRYING (USING) WIND.

i was reading through the verse. i am lithuanian.

NAINAM - in lihuanian (NEINAM)can mean 'let's not'
DEHTI -(DEGTI)means 'burn'

sir, there are number of words in the english language which are deformed form of sanskrit words proving that the sanskrit is the mother of all national and international language. THE LIST IS SO LONG THAT IT CAN NOT BE QUOTED HERE, WORDS we i yOU are deformations of vayam, aham, yooyam. othr words new,father,mother,brother,nose ,mouth,eyes, two,three,fourth, six,seven ,eight ,nine, cent deci ,path,stay,sit,water,grain,ear th,son, star,grass,horse,mouse,

Well guys i can tell you that where sanscrit was derived from,It is from the oldest ancient macedonian alphabet.Oldest phonetic alphabet found in caves in europe estimated to be 32000 to 50000
years.It is older than the hebrew alphabet.How the indian people got their alphabet& religion & culture
is quite amazing more than 3000 yars ago religious leaders from the high country travelled all the way to india & gave them sanscit alphabet of which we know is derived from the ancient macedonian.Shruti in sanscrit is to hear & the same as ancient macedonian.Sama veda,sama byitself
veda chanting.Truly it is amazing.The macedonians use a calendar which is 7600 years old.
Also guysVirtually all the european phonetic alphabets are derived from the ancient macedonian.

old macedonian was 36 letters where as all the other alphabets are 24 letters.
At last there can be no speculating as we know what & how it happend.Did you know macedonian still exists.Prior to 1912it was a whole country
which was divided amongs serbia,bulgaria,greece,albania .
The great powers without asking the macedonian people decided to divide the country.How can one country belong to 4 other countries.How can one group of people race claim to be another race of people???
george

The similarities between Sanskrit and Lithuanian are truly amazing,for example:
Sanskrit sunus (son)- Lith. sunus;
Sanskrit avis (sheep)- Lith. avis;
Sanskrit dhumas (smoke)- Lith. dumas;
Sanskrit viras (man)- Lith. vyras;
Sanskrit padas (sole)- Lith. padas;
Sanskrit vrkas (wolf)- Lith. vilkas;
Sanskrit aswa (horse)- Lith. asva;
Sanskrit antaras (second)- Lith. antras;

We can be safe in asserting that these Lithuanian words have not changes in their forms for the last five thousand years.

Here's one more Lithuanian proverb that sounds very much the same as in Sanskrit:

Lithuanian-Dievas dave dantis,Dievas duos ir duonas.
Sanskrit-Devas adat datas,Devas dasyati dhanas.

In English that proverb means:
God gave us teeth God will give us bread.

Wow, I am a Taiwanese Buddhist interested in Sanskrit as Buddhist mantras are all in Sanskrit. It is amazing what I've read from the above posts!

Cheers guys thanks for sharing.

Arunas wrote:

Here's one more Lithuanian proverb that sounds very much the same as in Sanskrit:
Lithuanian-Dievas dave dantis,Dievas duos ir duonas.
Sanskrit-Devas adat datas,Devas dasyati dhanas.

The Sanskrit version is correct!

Recently, I attended an Investors summit where someone from Lithuania claimed there are over 10,000 words in common between Lithuanian and Sanskrit. The world is indeed a small place.

Very interesting. My husband is a sanskrit student. We had priests who spoke sanskrit between each other during homam ceremoney. Sanskrit should be revived and taught so the new generation can learn to speak the beautiful ancient langauage again. Later languages like hindi and to a lesser extent malayalam have sanskrit words. Sanskrit is very pleasant to hear even in the form of prayers which I grew up listening to. My husband told me that he read about a professor talking in fluent sanskrit for a whole hour in Lithuania. He is not an Indian. Amazing and this proves the indian history I studied was right when it said the Aryans came from the caucaus mountains, making them caucasians who are not white now.

absolutely if the jews can revive hebrew then we surely can revive sanskrit.most Indians are bi/tri lingual anyway so learning a national importance language like sanskrit shouldn't be a problem,but 2 things:
1.start teaching the language at a very easly age.
2.go easy on the grammer part and concentrate on the conversation/sentence construction part.

I am the German/Albarjan(European)/Arja n god. I want to teach people about the common ancestry. Your text is interesting. I have found other similarities - this time with Slavic languages.

Your text was not clear in my web browsers so I had to recode it manually in UTF-8 so I am not sure if it looks like you intended it.

1. THE WOLF STANDS
Sanskrit: v&#341;k-as ti&#347;thati
Lithuanian: vilk-as stóvi
Polish: vilk stoi (wilk stoi),'sta&#263;'(*&#3 47;thati ?)= to stand

2. THE WOLF'S MOTHER
Sanskrit: v&#341;k-asya m&#257;t&#257;
Lithuanian: vilk-o mótina
Polish: vilk-a mat-k-a
Slavic: vilka maty/matj/ma&#263;/matjerj

3.(HE) GIVES TO THE WOLF
Sanskrit: dá-d&#257;ti vrk-&#257;ya
Lithuanian: dúoda vilk-ui
Polish: doda vilk-ovi = adds to the wolf; doda&#263; (dá-d&#257;ti ?)= add, give more

4.(HE) SEES THE WOLF
Sanskrit: pa&#347;yati vrk-am
Lithuanian: ma~to vilk-&#261;
Polish: patshe&#263; (na) vilk-a = look (at) a wolf
Slavic: patshati (pa&#347;yati ?)(na) vilk-a

5. Sanskrit: as-mi 'I am'
Polish: j-ES-te&#347;-MY(=mi)= jeste&#347;my = we are
j-ES-t-EM = I am
Lithuanian: es-u`(older es-mi)

6. Sanskrit: asi 'thou art'
Lithuanian: es-i`(<*es-si)
Polish: &#380;e&#347; = &#380;-e&#347; = you are (old Polish)

7. Sanskrit: as-ti 'he, she, it is'
Lithuanian: &#7869;s-ti 'there is'
Polish:-e&#347; = suffix relating to tenses or/and being like 'j-est-e&#347;'(asti ?)=(you) are; 'by-&#322;-e&#347;'=(y ou) were, suszy-&#322;-e&#347; =(you) dried

My conclusion is, that sometimes Polish and other slavic languages are more similar to Sanscrit, that Lithuanian, and that Polish (Slavic) and Lithuanian are sometimes similar very much, like in 'vilkas'-'vilk'.

(I am not sure if my text/letters will be displayed properly. There are Sanskrit, Polish and Lithuanian letters.)

There is also...

Ancient Greek: Polis (town, castle 'acropolis')
Lithuanian: Pilis

AG: Politis (citizen)
Lith: Pilietis

AG: Drasos (daring)
Lith: Drasus (daring)

Woohi wrote:

I'll write that in one-word format again. Tell me if there are similar words in Lithuanian.
NAINAM CHINDANTI SHASTRAANI;
NO DAMAGE (USING) WEAPONS;
NAINAM DEHTI PAAWAK(AH);
NO BURNING (USING) FIRE;
NAA CHAINAM KLEDYENTYAPO;
NO FLOODING (USING) WATER;
NAA SHOSHYATI MAAROOT(AH).
NO DRYING (USING) WIND.

I only find this slight similarity:

SHOSHYATI = SAUSINTI (to dry).

I don't think Lithuanian and Sanskrit are very close in any reasonable terms.

God Albert, you are right about the slavic languages being somewhat similar to sanskrit too. My mother tongue is slovak and I recently, out of sheer interest, made a comparison of numerals in slovak and sanskrit. Here it goes:
1 jeden eka
2 dva dvi
3 tri tri
4 štyri catur
5 pä&#357; pancan
6 šes&#357; sas
7 sedem saptan
8 osem astan
9 devä&#357; navan
10 desa&#357; dasan

Some names as well are similar if not the same:

Hindi: Arun
Lith :Arunas
Hindi: Udita (pronounced Oo di taa)
Lith : Judita (pronounced You di taa)

Devidas common to both;

Hindi :Sangeeta
Lith : Sigita

Hindi :Seema
Lith :Sima