How close is English to Pali? How close is English to Pali? If you look at the etymological pages in wiktionary, for English words, it often includes a &quot;Proto-Indo-European&quot; root, and sometimes mentions Sanksrit too. Take e.g. 'mad'
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mad#Etymology

From Middle English mad, madde, madd, medd, from Old English ġemǣdd,
ġemǣded (“enraged”), past participle of ġemǣdan, *mǣdan (“to make
insane or foolish”), from Proto-Germanic *maidijaną (“to change;
damage; cripple; injure; make mad”), from Proto-Germanic *maidaz
(&quot;weak; crippled&quot;; compare Old English gemād (“silly, mad”), Old High
German gimeit (“foolish, crazy”), Gothic  (gamaiþs,
“crippled”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (&quot;to change&quot;; compare Old
Irish máel (“bald, dull”), Old Lithuanian ap-maitinti (“to wound”),
Sanskrit मेथति (méthati, “he hurts, comes to blows”)).

Is there anywhere I can read about Pali as a language that has influenced the etymon, development, of English today?
You can find this info on the wikipedia page for Indo-European Languages in the form of a family tree below, with Pali and English highlighted with a yellow box.
Legend:

Green: Language still in use
Red: Language extinct
White: Categories

English is a Germanic language, while Pali is an Indo-Iranian language. Both come under the major family of Indo-European languages.

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