I recently stumbled upon the word 'lakh' in the Indian number system meaning 100000 [1] , which according to Paul Thieme [2] may be related to the German word L

I recently stumbled upon the word 'lakh' in the Indian number system meaning 100000 [1] , which according to Paul Thieme [2] may be related to the German word Lachs, for salmon, referring to the innumerable fish in a swarm. The way languages are connected in their histories while seeming so disparate today keeps fascinating me. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh