There's also a "mana" word in Eastern European languages ( http://dexonline.ro/definitie/mana - it's an archaic-regional word, not new or imported from French/English!), VERY polysemantic, with some distantly similar meanings, and with some negative connotations, usually listed everywhere as having either a Greek or a Slavic root (мана), but also fond in older Bible translations... so a Hebrew -> Slavic -> (...) route might be possible. And this is way older than Mircea Eliade's rediscovery and popularization of the Austronesian word.
99% coincidence, but who knows, we might even have a common origin of Indo-European and Austronesian languages showing up it's head here...
Reminds me of the 2000+ years old Sanskrit word "avatar" that also got a whole new meaning in the digital world :)
> 99% coincidence, but who knows, we might even have a common origin of indo-european and Austronesian languages showing up it's head here...
This isn't possible given the timescales involved. Constant language change means there's no way to distinguish hypothetically identical-by-descent words that diverged so long ago from unsurprising identical-by-coincidence words. What cannot be detected in theory cannot usefully be said to exist at all.
In sum, an even more ancient common origin of ancient language families cannot be described as "showing itself" anywhere, since there's nothing left to be seen.
99% coincidence, but who knows, we might even have a common origin of Indo-European and Austronesian languages showing up it's head here...
Reminds me of the 2000+ years old Sanskrit word "avatar" that also got a whole new meaning in the digital world :)