Origin and etymology of the English words "Mother, metro, mama, matrix, matriculate, matron, matter, material, materialism" come from the Sanskrit word "mātṛ मातृ" .

 

Origin and etymology of the English words "Mother, mama, matrix, matriculate, matron, matter, material, materialism".

Sanskrit is the mother of all languages.  All languages ancient as well as modern, are derived from this Vedic language. This platform explores how the entire world at one time in the past was practicing the Vedic Sanatana Dharma.  Their philosophy and practices were inspired from the Vedas.  Sanskrit is the language of expression of the Vedic thoughts.  A little effort is required and the etymological influence of Sanskrit over all the languages can be seen clearly.

Now, coming back to the Sanskrit word mātṛ, all the above mentioned English words come from the word mātṛ meaning mother.

A linguistic evidence of the Sanatana World.

This platform explores the evidence of "the Sanatana World” linguistically.  It has been a privilege for me to introduce such a peculiar work before the readers.  As far as I know, not much effort has been made in this field before.  This work explores the Sanatana past of the entire world.  It may seem hard to believe but the entire world at one time in the past was practicing the Vedic Sanatana dharma.  

Many archaeological evidences keep surfacing from time to time to support this fact.  The vigraha murtis (Supreme Paramatama worshiped in different forms) and temples of the Sanatana civilization appear spontaneously on excavations in almost all parts of the world.  Historical and literary sources also suggest that in not so distant past, this world was the habitat of pluralistic, all encompassing, all accommodating, nature worshiping people.

Here, this aspect has been explored through the languages spoken in different parts of the world.  These different languages still retain numerous words that were used in their native civilizations many centuries ago.  These people moved out of the Indian Subcontinent and spread to different parts of the world.  With them they carried the philosophy and the practices and also their language Sanskrit.  With the passage of time, when used by the common people, the form and the pronunciation deviated significantly from the original one.  These languages now being considered as different languages but still retaining a vast amount of vocabulary of the parent Sanskrit.

So the subject here is an interesting one, to explore the origin of different languages spoken around the world from an ancient language Sanskrit which is termed as the language of the Devas (deities) in the Sanatana shastras.  It is the oldest known language,  one having vast amount of literature available.  The philosophy, traditions and the practices ordained in the ancient Sanskrit scriptures is followed ardently till today in the Indian subcontinent.  

Interestingly, not only the European languages but also the languages spoken in middle east and even Latin America and Africa that have words derived from the Sanskrit.

So this blog explains the Vedic Sanatana past of the people living on this earth and the evidence provided by the different languages spoken in different parts of the world.  Hence the title of this blog  "A linguistic evidence of the Sanatana World".

As stated above the different languages spoken today in the world originate from a single source i.e. the Sanskrit language.  Often we have heard that Sanskrit is the mother of all languages but we have hardly bothered to verify the veracity of this statement.  At one time in the past, the entire world having seven continents was a Sanatana civilization.  The people were worshiping different forces of nature i.e. the earth, the fire, the water, the  sky, the wind, the mountains, the trees, the rivers and so on.  these were the forces which are essential for the existence and survival of life on this planet.  These natural forces were worshiped in the form of different deities.  People offered different material items in the form of offerings and ahutis (oblations) to these deities, praised them, sang the songs in their praise and in turn sought abundant food, safety, social and spiritual welfare and well being of the self and humanity from them.

All these old civilizations in the world were polytheistic believing and worshiping different forms of the one Supreme being.  They were practicing the polytheism just like we do today in the Sanatana Dharma.

Here I will keep adding words pertaining to the different languages that are directly derived from the Sanskrit roots. Today's world is mātṛ मातृ meaning mother.

When a child comes to this earth, his first interaction is with his mother.  Mother provides love, care, compassion to the child.  So the mother is a word deeply embedded in our mind.  A mother is pronounced by different names in different languages.  The Sanskrit world mātṛ मातृ has been used in different languages to denote mother as under:

“Maadar” (مادر ) in Persian (Ta to Da) ;

Madre in Italian, Spanish, Portguese ;

mátēr in Greek ;

mate, mati in Old Slavic and Russian ;

māte in Latvian ;

móte in Lithuanian ;

máthir in Old Ireland ;

màthair in Gaelic;

Old Celtic māter ;

Armenian mair/maur;

Tokharian mācar/mācer;

Germanic and Old English mōdor;

Old Frisian mōder;

Old Saxon and Gothic mōdar;

German muotar/muoter/Mutter;

Dutch moder/moeder;

Old Norse mōthir.

mātṛ (mother) is the origin of word ma-/MAMA (breast )

Greek mētēr/mētera/mētros, Greek Dēmētēr, English Demeter, the goddess of the fruitful soil or the ‘mother of the gods’

Mētropolis, mother-city; Latin mētropolīta, from Greek mētropolitēs, a native, an inhabitant, of a metropolis. It becomes English metropolitan ; Latin māter has the following derivatives relevant to English: māternus, maternal; maternity; mātrimōnium, maternity, mātrix (womb), mātricem.

Mātrix in Late Latin also meant a public register, the synonym mātricula in Middle Latin meant a register of university students and thus originated the word matriculation.

Mātrōna (corresponding to Latin patrōnus), a married woman, or a widow, Old French matrone, the English matron and matronal. Italian madre, mother, Old English mōdor (mother) becomes Middle English moder and the English mother.

We come across another word "matter". Matter means physical substance in general, as distinct from mind and spirit; (in physics) that which occupies space and possesses rest mass, especially as distinct from energy.  Interestingly, the word matter also come from mātṛ मातृ meaning mother. In Sanatana philosophy, the Purusha or the Supreme is inactive and the Prakriti is the Shakti or power of the Purusha from which this whole creation originates. She is the originator of this universe. Therefore, she is called mother of this world as she gives birth to this entire world. So she is called Jaganmata (universal Mother) in Sanatana Scriptures. Everything distinct from the Purusha is Prakriti or mātṛ मातृ. Therefore, everything distinct from the energy is called matter. Thus, the words matter, material, materialistic, materialism, materialize, maternity find their origin in mātṛ मातृ.

Jaganmata (the Universal Mother), the divine Shakti (power) of the Supreme, also called Maya.

    In the instant blog, we saw that how the word mātṛ मातृ has been used in all the languages of this world having the same or derived meaning. This gives sufficient indication that the Sanatana philosophy was present everywhere and Sanskrit as an expressive language of the Sanatana had influence everywhere in the world. There are numerous such words which, will be introduced in this blog in later. For now, we stop here with the the wish that the gracious Jaganmata (the Universal Mother), the Sanatani Devi gives us material and spiritual upliftment.