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This paper examines the Arabic cognates and/or origins of time words in English, German, French, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit from a lexical root theory viewpoint. The data consists of a little over 140 terms such as time, date, hour, day, night, morning, yesterday, now, month, year, annually, eventually, initially, finally, sometimes, often and so on. The results show that all such words have true Arabic cognates, with the same or similar forms and meanings. All their different forms, however, are shown to be due to natural and plausible causes of linguistic change. For example, English time, French temp, and Latin tempus derive from Arabic zaman 'time' through different processes such as turning /z/ into /t/ in all as opposed to merging /n/ into /m/ in English and dissimilating it into /p/ in the other two; English date and German Zeit 'time' come from Arabic waqt 'time' (gate, kate in Palestinian Arabic) via reordering and turning /q/ into /d/ in the former and /z (ts)/ in the latter. Contrary to Comparative Method claims, this entails that Arabic, English and all European languages belong to the same language, let alone the same family. Owing to their phonetic complexity, huge lexical variety and multiplicity, Arabic words are the original source from which the others stemmed. This proves the adequacy of the lexical root theory according to which Arabic, English, German, French, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit are dialects of the same language with the first being the origin.
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