Originally Posted by
maddhan1979
Indo European languages have routes/roots in central asia and middle east. At certain time in human history, when people traveled on horses and Eurasian subcontinent was open for travelling through various trade routes and horse routes. It is possible that people knew the extend of the land from far east to far west of those Eurasian traversing days. Far east being farthest part of China till a sea was reached and farthest west being Farthest part of Europe till sea was reached. As in old Eurasian times, sea travel across the sea to Amerika was not common till the time Amerika was discovered by Christopher Colombus.
So, it is very much possible that people who were travelling through different routes identified themselves with the location on Eurasian subcontinent. People coming from the middle of this Eurasian subcontinent could have identified themselves with this identity. In ancient times people who spoke both Semitic and non Semitic languages resided on Eurasian subcontient and this Eurasian subcontinent stretched from far east of China to far west of Europe.
In ancient times there were numerous kingdoms which stretched across Eurasian subcontinent and it is possible that everyone living on this Eurasian subcontinent would not have known all the kingdoms. So, if a stranger came to some new place and he was asked where he is coming from? A person/s could have identified themselves with the location of the place he/they are coming from, rather than the name of the kingdom the person/s are coming from.
So non semitic speakers of the language, when they went to a new place would have identified themselves with Indo European language roots i.e. "Mittle" or "Middle", which becomes "Madhya" in Hindi. (The exact location of this "Middle place" could have been anywhere India, ancient middle east, middle of the Eurasia, etc., which in today´s context is hard to verify)
While Meadh, Med or Mead in English connects with ancients nomads who used to graze animals. The word "Meadow", also seems to be coming from the same origin and seems to connect with Meadh, Med or Mead. All of these three words seem to have different origins from "Mittle" or "Middle" in English. Although all of the words show character of Indo European languages but as far as i have been able to understand non Semitic languages came out of Semitic languages, therefore the origin of these words might have some older roots in Semitic languages.
Again there are people in India called "Madhashi", this word sounds combination of two words "Madhya + Deshi", People who are local(Deshi means local) and come from middle lands. Although "Meaddh and Madhya " look similar but phonetically these words sound different and then there is a point that spoken language came before written language.
So, these words show different roots and migration of the people.