Belarusian and European languages share words

Тое ж самае на беларускай

Cukar Сахар

 

From the very childhood Belarusians have to hear that Belarusian and Russian languages are very similar. As a result, we believe this and later re-tell this everyone else. But is this really so? Is Russian the only language that Belarusian shares the same words with?

Here is my collection of words that Belarusian shares with other languages.


The words that have identical pronunciation and meaning.

сэнс = sense (English)

дах = Dach (Deutsch)

друк = Druck (Deutsch), druk (Nederlandse, Polska), drukāt (Latviešu)

добра = då bra (Svenska)

смак = smak (Svenska, Norske), smaak (Nederlandse)

швагер - Schvager (Deutsch)