Isn't it strange how the word "name" is so similar in many languages?
All the languages I've studied to a greater or lesser extent:
- English: NAME
- French: NOM
- Portuguese: NOME
- Irish: AINM
- Italian: NOME
- Gujarati: NAAM
- Japanese: NAMAE
- Finnish: NIMENI
I mean, Japanese and Finnish aren't even related to any of the other languages on this list (nor to each other, of course). But you still have the pattern of an N sound followed by an M sound.
These are what I looked up on bing translate:
- Spanish: NOMBRE
- Swedish: NAMN
- Romanian: NUME
- Indonesian: NAMA
- Greek: Όνομα (onoma?)
- German: NAMEN
Of course, while looking these up, I found quite a few that didn't follow the pattern. Even so, I've always found this pattern to be very interesting! Are there any other words you know that are similar across multiple, even unconnected, languages?