Similar Words

[Harry Smith]

I would like to pay attention to similar words with the same translation and meaning in two and more languages one of which must be English.
I have been doing these research for many years. I always tell my students that English is very easy to learn and bring these examples connected with similar words with the same meaning in English and Armenian.
For example: English Armenian
am em
team tim
hero heros
door dur
listen lsel

[Tdol]

What about mother/father?

[Harry Smith]

Originally Posted by Tdol

What about mother/father?

Mother and Father are a little different " Mayrik" and "Hayrik" but we also have mama and papa or mum and pup.
I hope you know that English and Armenian are in one family " Indian- european". Besides there are plenty of words which have the same pronunciation but different meaning. Do=you, what= foot, talk=lung, me=one,car=stone, bar=word etc.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by Harry Smith

I would like to pay attention to similar words with the same translation and meaning in two and more languages one of which must be English.
I have been doing these research for many years. I always tell my students that English is very easy to learn and bring these examples connected with similar words with the same meaning in English and Armenian.
For example: English Armenian
am em
team tim
hero heros
door dur
listen lsel

Do you have "taxi" in Armenian? I'm told that this word is exactly the same in the most languages.

[Harry Smith]

Originally Posted by MikeNewYork

Do you have "taxi" in Armenian? I'm told that this word is exactly the same in the most languages.

The word "taxi" is an American word. It has penetrated into other languages throughout centuries. And now as far as I know it's an international word.

[Harry Smith]

Today I asked one of my students what the verb "bring" means in Armenian and he said "berel". I think there is something common in these two forms.

[Tdol]

How similar are the first few numbers?

[Harry Smith]

Originally Posted by Tdol

How similar are the first few numbers?

They are not similar but they have something in common. Here they are: "mek, yerkus, yerek, chors, hing, vets, yot, uot, inna, tas" Now I'm sure you can count in Armenian too.

[Harry Smith]

I have found one more word which has the same meaning and pronunciation with the English one.
murmur - murmurtal ( as you can see they are the same only in my language we pronounce -tal in the end.)

[Jason72]

English and German are very alike. :D