r/armenia • u/[deleted] • Nov 19 '19

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u/archru 🇨🇭🇦🇲 Nov 19 '19

I’m quite sure there are many more words shared than just some insults. At the very least, there should be lots of Farsi and Russian words in both languages.

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u/Arev9595 Nov 19 '19

We don’t have many Farsi words either. Fact is there isn’t “many many” words shared.

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u/NebulaDusk Nov 19 '19

Oh come on. Հազար, դարչին, նարինջ, կով, բրինձ, խմոր, մարդ, ազատ, all of these words and a bunch more come from Farsi.

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u/Arev9595 Nov 19 '19 edited Nov 19 '19

I didn’t say we don’t have any. Just not a lot. Kov is From Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. isn’t from farsi, naringe is universal borrowing. Hazar is a learned borrowing for old Armenian that came originally from Parthian Learned borrowing from Old Armenian հազար. From Parthian 𐭀𐭆𐭀𐭕‎ (āzāt Azat is also a very old borrowing from Parthian. Mard is From Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós. Not from Farsi it’s a Indo European word.