The ancient etymology of �give� and �take�

These key words tend to repeat across many terms (and of course many languages) and have given rise to a remarkable array of morphologies.

I have unearthed a sufficient number of terms that cut across ‘genetically unrelated’ language families to make nonsense of the conventional linguistics view that any words across such families that exhibit similarity in both sound and meaning must be deemed to be purely coincidental. Indeed, my findings agree with Genesis 11 that such a universal mother language was scrambled by God (read: ‘the gods’) following the Tower of Babel incident in Shin’ar (Sumer), Mesopotamia. This week we look into vestiges of that ancient protolanguage in the specific context of the acts of ‘giving’ and ‘taking’.