Is this word is English or ....

There are lot of words in English that are imported as it is from other languages. I wonder whether Pundit is english or not.
tell me does it belong to english or not. If Yes the n no problem. if no then tell me whether Pundit word has been accepted worldwide as english word. I searched on net and found the meaning of the pundit

NOte: This is related to my business and i need your opinion. and also tell me whether ¨Pundit ¨ and ¨pandit΅are same or not

 

I think this "pundit" word comes from hindi

Thanks

 

Pundit Ummm
Yea it is a Hindi Word AFAIK and it means a Sage/ Saint

 

Pundit probably comes from the Hindi Pandit- a title given to Jawaharlal Nehru. Pandit means somebody learned.

 

Pandit comes from Sanskrit - my 2cents.

 

Hope this answers all your queries.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pundit

Ace Tuku

 

sounds web 2.0

 

yep , i know some Pandit s here .

 

As we all know all the north indian languages are derived from Sanskrit. And Sanskrit is part of a group of more then 100 languages called Indo european languages. Since Sanskrit is oldest of them all, there are several words quite common among these languages.
One example of a word is NAVGATI (नवगती in Sanskrit means guidance of ships ). Similar word in english is 'to Navigate' which also means same. From this word there is a word derived called 'Nav' in Hindi meaning a boat or a ship. And the word navy has also been derived from it. Since the navigation system was first developed by the people in Indus river civilization these words have indian origin.
Wikipedia has a nice link for this discussion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages