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This is REALLY silly but that would be me making the absolutely unsurprising connection (to academics) between Russian and Sanskrit because I was trying to learn basic Russian and learning their word for man is basically distant cousins along the language tree to the Malay "manusia".
Anyway out of that I learned that the etymology of punch comes from the Slavic languages' word for five (because five fingers = a whole dang fist) which is of course related to Sanskrit as well and survives in Malay in words like "pancaindera"
Sekian terima kasih.
Germanic, Greek, Latin, Romance, Slavic, Indic; all these languages ultimately are descendants of an ancestral language linguists call the Proto-Indo-European.
english goose == German gans == sanskrit gansa == malay angsa
Yup!! For some reason I never situated Russian and Ukrainian in the family tree lmao