Languages - Similarities

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I often think and reflect about all kinds of things that just come to my mind. Since I'm interested in languages there are moments when I see similiarities of words in different languages, often unexpected. I don't study something like that but it's always very interesting for me. So I thought there might be other players around who are interested in this topic as well and willing to share little experiences they made, for instance when they found out that there's a word or an expression in another language that sounds similiar to another language or their mother tongue. I know at least the basics of four languages, German (mother tongue), English (first foreign language in school), French (second foreign language in school) and Persian (my father is Iranian so I know the basics), I'll give a few examples to make it clearer what I mean.

Whenever I think of the country Portugal I think of Oranges. Why? Because in Persian Orange and the country Portugal share the same word: Portugal (maybe because the first Oranges were from Portugal, I don't know...)

When I thought about MerCyKiL's nick (you can't avoid seeing it on this forum unless you use the ignore function xD) it suddenly came to my mind what it actually means, never thought of it before, the exact same word as in German (Gnadentod). Actually the meaning should have been pretty obvious but the more commom word for kill in this context is death (for Germans like me) which is why I did't get at first sight.

Brille (German, in English = glaces) and briller (French, in English = shine).



That expression in the screenshot is the exact same one in German, word by word (Meiner spricht Bände).

Tochter (German)
Daughter (English)
Dokhtar (Persian; pronounced --> Dochtar)

Katze (German)
Cat (English)
Chat (French)

Any language could be used, there might be always somebody who is able to understand and see the similiarity. I'm eager to see your responses :)