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Similarities in languages.

It’s curious but sometimes English words and Russian words are very close. We aren’t talking about words which came into Russian language from English or Latin languages, like “football” or “computer” or “revolution” etc. Let’s take the word “strawberry”(клубника in Russian). This word doesn’t sound Russian at all. But if we read each letter in Latin (or just with Russian accent), this word will sound like [stravberri] or стравберри (in Cyrillic alphabet). And now “strawberry” sounds like [s trav beri] (с трав бери) and does have sense in Russian. “С трав бери” means “take from the grass”. And we know that strawberry grows on the grass! It’s amazing isn’t it?<o:p></o:p>

9 de jan de 2017 14:33
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Interesting thing is than in both languages berries have a morphological marker.

For English it is simply -berry. Cranberrry, blueberry, strawberry, lingonberry, blackberry, raspberry etc. (many... really many other names like this).


In Russian berries commonly have suffix -ика or -ника.
Черника, голубика, земляника, клубника, ежевика, брусника и т.д. Raspberry and cranberry are малина and клюква, though.

For both languages it is not too common a situation.
Some kinds of fish (swordfish) some fruits (grapefruit), etc. have similar names, but with berries it is done consistently.


9 de janeiro de 2017
I recalled when I studied Russian in school how close so many words were. With European languages, there are so many cognates because so many peoples overlapped. The Vikings colonized both the ancient Rus lands along the Volga and elsewhere and brought many words with them. Likewise, the same Vikings settled in the British Isles and brought words there too. The spread of Greek, which English and Russian both took words from, also helped. :-)
9 de janeiro de 2017
There are quite a few words like that between English and German too. For instance, "dog" in English is "Hund" in German. They seem very different at first, until you realize an older English word for dog is "hound" which is very close to the German word. There are lots of other examples such as "Schokolade" meaning "chocolate" or "Fleisch" for "meat" (similar to "flesh"). It's very fascinating!
9 de janeiro de 2017

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