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David

Indo-European Cognates

I thought it'd be interesting to make a list of IE cognates.
I can only think of two at the moment. Anyone care to add more?

English: baby
Spanish: bebé
Italian: bambino
Hindu: bachcha
Slavic tongues: something like "pabe"

English: mother
Italian: madre
Spanish: madre
Sanskrit: mātṛ
Benjamin [inactive]

German: Baby
French: bébé

German: Mutter
French: mère
Harrenys Targaryen

As counterpoints to the former:

Danish - spædbarn
Dutch - kindje

Though the latter are similar:

Danish - moder
Dutch - moeder
Porthos

I notice that in Indo-European cognates, the Germanic languages seem to change a Romance 'p' to an 'f'. Such as
Padre--->Father
greg in noord-frankrijk

This is an instance of Grimm's law.



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David

Harrenys Targaryen wrote:
As counterpoints to the former:

Danish - spædbarn
Dutch - kindje

hoiw rxactly is that pronounced?
Sander

David wrote:
Harrenys Targaryen wrote:
As counterpoints to the former:

Danish - spædbarn
Dutch - kindje

hoiw rxactly is that pronounced?


kindje = [kɪntʲə]
David

Sander wrote:
David wrote:
Harrenys Targaryen wrote:
As counterpoints to the former:

Danish - spædbarn
Dutch - kindje

hoiw rxactly is that pronounced?


kindje = [kɪntʲə]


Haha, I meant spædbarn.
The latter would be something like "Kindey", I think.
Harrenys Targaryen

David wrote:

hoiw rxactly is that pronounced?


I don't know how to write the phonetic alphabet, but I can offer an aural approximation.

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