Words Connects The Worlds

Recently i’ve been interested in the meaning of words and what ’s their translation in other languages. it’s not a research, but only for ‘just want to know’ purpose.

Starting with finding the meaning of my name. Last week i went to Kinokuniya bookstore in KLCC and i found a book on sanskrit language. My first name derived from sanskrit language ‘dvi’ which means ‘two’ in english. this name was given coz i m the second child.

‘two’ means ‘dua’ in malay/indonesian ‘loro’ in javanese ‘er’ in chinese ‘istnani’ in arabs ‘ni’ in japs. if i were to see the connection between the different translation, i would have no idea how to connect them. But if i were to ‘listen the similarity between them, they would certainly make a connection to each other.

If you slow down the pronunciation of ‘DVI’ you would hear the sound ‘u’ before you pronounce ‘vi’, makes it sound like ‘DU VI’. in some areas the letter V is not well-articulated as it is an absorbed letter, it sounds more like W (we) rather than V (victory), thus makes it sound like ‘DU WI’ which later formed my first name DWI.

The word turns to DUA (DU WA) in malay/indo language which i have no idea when and why the sound ‘I’ turns to ‘A’. or is it the same as the tendency of Javanese to change the sound A to O (for example: wibawa becoming wibowo)? In English they’ve probably shorten the word and pronounce only the first sylable DU. The pronunciation is almost the same as TWO

There is a similarity between the japs and arabs. Both have the sound ‘NI’ .if i were to make a logical explanation, i would simply say that the word ‘NI’ is the contraction (short-form) of the word Istsnani. when and where both people met and introduced the concept of countings or whether both language actually connected to each other, i have no idea. God Knows

However i will found out about it soon or later.

Btw, i’ve visited this cool website by National Geographic Channel which is a project that seeks to find where the first human being actually was by studying the genes of humans all over the world. If you want to know where the first ‘adam’ was sent down click to this link:

https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/

it is cool to know that my greatx10 grandfather was a cousin of your greatX10 grandfather and you could be of a totally different race. Probably your greatX10 grandfather was a well known person of the human history and married to your greatX10 grand mother who was the descendant of a Royal Family of the most influential kindom in the world at that time, but their genes were not strong enough to ’survive’ along the time which just make you an ordinary person who work 24 hour around the clock just to serve your boss.

ANYWAY…In relation to the topic above, It is possible to imagine that the transformation of the words was due to inconsistence use of a word as a description of a concept which caused by many factors such as :occupation, innovation, learning process, time, including intercultural marriage.

Probably your greatX10 grandparents were so chauvinistic (but so in love with each other) and try to taught your greatX9 grand father how to count from 1 to 10, and ended up using your greatX10 grandmother language for the odd numbers and your greatX10 grandfather for the even numbers.

(However, it showed that your greatX10 grandfather was a gentleman. it’s always Lady’s First.)

6.12.06 / 2am