EVOLVE means a word and languages change gradually with use from one language to another. Modern English evolved from Old English a.k.a Anglo-Saxon. If you read it (Anglo-Saxon), chances are you wouldn’t be able to understand it. It was a highly inflected language, like Latin,while very Germanic. With the addition of a sizable Norse population in the 800’s, 900’s and 1000’s the language “evolved” by dropping a lot of the inflections so it could be more easily understood by the Norse. With the later addition of Norman French speakers to the population a host of Latin words came into English and evolved from their Gallicized Norman forms into an Anglicized forms.
Ancient Egyptian “evolved” wiht time an use into Middle Egyptian and then later Coptic. Amn Egyptian of 2000 B.C. wouldn’t be likely to be able to understand much at all of Coptic.
Mycenean Greek “evolved” over time into Classical Greek, Koine and leter Modern Greek. A modern Greek speaker would have as much of a chance of undeerstanding a Classical Greek as would a modern day speaker of English have in understanding Anglo-Saxon.
This pattern is repeated with other languages and linguistic families.
Linguists and philologists know the probable changes in word sounds with time in different language groups and can reasonably predict with some degree of accuracy how words looked and sounded as they evolved. The computer modeling helps in this regard.
I much prefer Norman/Gallo.