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04-Oct-2006, 17:07
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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
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05-Oct-2006, 06:15
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What about mother/father? |
05-Oct-2006, 19:05
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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. |
08-Oct-2006, 17:51
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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. |
08-Oct-2006, 18:53
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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. 
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24-Nov-2006, 17:45
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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.  |
25-Nov-2006, 07:36
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How similar are the first few numbers? |
25-Nov-2006, 17:05
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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.  |
12-May-2007, 18:00
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I have found one more word which has the same meaning and pronunciation with the English one.
murmur - murmur tal ( as you can see they are the same only in my language we pronounce -tal in the end.) |
13-May-2007, 11:26
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