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yorwba
490 days ago
French
être
is from PIE
h₁ésti
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...
which also gave rise to Marathi आथि (
āthi
). Marathi असणे (
asṇe
)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A3%E...
appears unrelated. (But might be cognate to English
at home
?)
Not all similarities between mondern languages are inherited, coincidences do happen.