I like these little connections between related languages within a language family that you find sometimes, where words or at least roots of them transcend time and geography. Germanic languages have plenty of those, the coolest being obviously closely related words in Scots and German that have died out in English, like the Scots "kenning" being the direct equivalent of the modern German "kennen", obviously stemming from the same root, while being more warped to "knowing" in English. Or little bridges between the languages, like the number five,, "Fünf" in German, but pronounced very, very closely to the English version in Dutch. Or the Scots "Kirk" being very close to the German "Kirche", also more warped as "church" in English.

You can read about the history of every one of those countries and comprehend the history of vocabulary like that being as it is. Any more examples like this? There's probably even more in Latin languages. I'm not a linguist and probably sound like a retard to one, but i do like this

>>17873598 (OP)
Bairn in Scottish is related to barn in Danish and Norwegian (both mean child)

>>17873600
Fuck yeah, that's what I'm talking about

>>17873598 (OP)
I jokingly pronounced poison as "pwah-zon" to my French speaking friend and he explained to me that that's actually how the word is in French.
Uh here's a funny one: tank in German is panzer, from the French panciere which referred to mail armor that covers the abdomen, from the Latin pantex for belly or guts. In Portuguese this became pança which is considered a silly way of saying belly, so to Brazilians it's like the Germans are calling a tank "tummy".

>know French, Spanish, English and a bit of German and Italian
>learn Latin
Was not ready for this lads

>>17873711
blows your mind, doesn't it? sometimes i wish i would have studied linguistics, this shit is very closely related to history of course, and just as interesting in its own but very similar way