6. ONE NEEDS NO TRAINING IN THE FINE POINTS
OF PHILOLOGY TO SEE THE SIMILARITIES IN
ENGLISH”FATHER”, GERMAN”PATER”,
SANSKRIT”PIRT” ALL OF WHICH HAVE THE SAME
MEANING
7. WITHIN THE INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY OF LANGUAGES THERE
ARE SEVERAL SUBFAMILIES, CONSISTING OF LANGUAGES
CLOSELY RELATED.
8. ENGLISH BELONGS TO THE GERMANIC BRANCH OF INDOEUROPEAN AND IS A CLOSE RELATIVE OF GERMAN, DUTCH,
THE SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES AND EXTINCT GOTHIC.