Surprising cognates

Post by **Salmoneus** » 18 Jun 2020 16:07

English: horde
Urdu (and English): Urdu

qwed117 · Post by **qwed117** » 28 Jul 2020 23:00

Hungarian ezer “thousand” ~

Tamil āyiram “thousand”~

English mile

All from PIE *sm-g’éslom “one-thousand”

k1234567890y · Post by **k1234567890y** » 15 Oct 2020 11:02

English bite and English fibre (borrowed from Latin fibra)

both of them are from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- ("to split")

Shemtov · Post by **Shemtov** » 04 Dec 2020 21:23

<dyqan> /dyc͡çan/ "Store" Yiddish /duxann̩/ "to preform the priestly blessings" both ultimately from Aramaic /dukanaʔ/ "Platform"

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