Recently I found a very interesting article about Armenian and English languages, of course I knew that they both belong to the same language family but I haven’t thought about them both to be so close to each other. Let me bring some examples here, later you will find the whole article if you get interested in this in WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_language#cite_note-12
ARTICLE SIX
Armenian words compared to other Indo-European ones
Armenian is an Indo-European language, and so many of its Proto-Indo-European-descended words are cognates of words in other Indo-European languages such as English, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit. This table lists only some of the more recognizable cognates that Armenian shares with English (more specifically, with English words descended from the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) language). (Source: Online Etymology Dictionary.[15])
Armenian | |||||||
mayr "mother | mother (< OE mōdor) | māter "mother" | mādar "mother" | ||||
hayr "father" | father (< OE fæder) | pater "father" | pedar "father" | ||||
eġbayr "brother" | brother (< OE brōþor) | frāter "brother" | barādaṛ "brother" | ||||
doostr "daughter" | daughter (< OE dohtor) | Latin cognate lost[16] | doxtar "daughter" | ||||
kin "woman" | queen (< OE cwēn "queen, woman, wife") | cognate is unknown | Old Persian kiana"woman, wife" | ||||
Comments
In my first language, the word "mother" also begins with the letter "M", it's written "mẹ". It's so interesting to know the initial letter of the "Mother" word in many languages is "M".
oh dear mod Expector Smith, i think its because the letter M is easier to pronounce....
I wonder why mothers are called "mama" almost in all the language - why not "caca", or "fafa", or "haha"? They chose the letter "M" for "Mother".