Thousands of years ago, before either language existed, a single tongue was spoken somewhere north of the Black Sea. Its descendants spread in every direction — one line moved south and east and became, eventually, Kurdish. Another moved north into the forests and became, eventually, Russian. The grammar diverged completely. The scripts have nothing in common. But underneath, a handful of very old words never really left.
The words so far
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About this page
This is a small, ongoing project by Kamyar and Sofia — one of us grew up speaking Kurdish, the other Russian. We kept noticing words that sounded strangely alike, looked into why, and decided to start writing them down properly, root by root. New pairs get added as we find them.