English words that have a Sanskrit origin

English is a language that has evolved over centuries and keeps evolving even today, expanding every year to include modern words or words from other languages that made their way into the second most spoken language across the world.

Though it's hard to imagine, the ancient world was quite well connected by trade routes and along with the flow of goods, ideas too traveled and the languages mixed with each other to form new words. The origin of many ancient Greco-Roman words, now a part of modern English have been traced to Sanskrit. Here are some examples. Even from their pronunciation, it's evident that these words are similar.