The words "horse" and "car" trace back to a shared Proto-Indo-European root (*ḱers-) meaning "to run," connecting the running animal to the running vehicle.
wow.... 7500 year old language... that is really cool! Now you have me wondering what is the oldest language still in use, relatively unchanged? The internet says Tamil, from India (2400 years), Icelandic, and Lithuanian - then Sanskrit and Hebrew
The Indo-European language called Armenian uses the word GAR for car or cart and dates to at least 4500 B.C. if not older.
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