Russian-Germanic cognates
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cozmic1, at KGB food + dance lesson event.
Here's my list of German-Russian cognates (no Latin, Greek words allowed).
kupi = kaufen (Dutch "kopen") (to buy)
raboto = arbeit (to work)
lyub = lieben (to love)
(I trust my readers to correct my Russian.)
It's kinda surprising how many cognates there are, since they are in different language families (the only known common ancestor being some branch of PIE). I vaguely remember reading that old Germanic borrowed heavily, and had little vocabulary of its own.
cozmic1, at KGB food + dance lesson event.Here's my list of German-Russian cognates (no Latin, Greek words allowed).
kupi = kaufen (Dutch "kopen") (to buy)
raboto = arbeit (to work)
lyub = lieben (to love)
(I trust my readers to correct my Russian.)
It's kinda surprising how many cognates there are, since they are in different language families (the only known common ancestor being some branch of PIE). I vaguely remember reading that old Germanic borrowed heavily, and had little vocabulary of its own.