Surprising cognates

[Nortaneous]

Armenian ewt'n "seven" ~ Akkadian sibittu id.
Finnish taivas "sky" ~ Georgian devi "monster" ~ Arabic diyū "demon" ~ English Tyr
Lule Sami boatsoj "reindeer" ~ Bashkir mïšï "moose" ~ English fee
Finnish sarvi "horn" ~ Finnish hirvi "elk" ~ English hornet ~ English cerebrum
Pite Sami tjuohte "hundred" ~ English cent
Finnish ajaa "drive" ~ Northern Sami vuodjit "drive" ~ English coagulate ~ Finnish ammatti "profession" ~ Irish amhas "hooligan" ~ French gérer "manage"
Moksha jerʹxke "lake" ~ Lithuanian jáura "bog"
Northern Sami miehta "honey" ~ Chinese mì id. ~ Malay madu id. ~ Yakut müöt id. ~ Lao mathu id. ~ Chechen moz id. (OK, I'm not sure about the last three, but it's probable)
Micmac atlai "shirt" < Basque atorra id.
Micmac elega:wit "he is a king" ~ Latvian redzēt "see"

also Iroquois < Basque-based pidgin (h)ilokoa "killer people"

[Pabappa]

are the Micmac words all loans?

air and wind are cognates, if you follow the chains of words at http://enwp.org/wikt:air and http://enwp.org/wikt:wind , though the common element is just PIE *h2w-. Also in this word family are east, Austria, and Australia. meaning that the similarity of the names of the two countries is not such a coincidence after all, despite that they have different meanings.

[Znex]

stall
locum > lieu {place, location}
Both come from the PIE root *stel- {to put, place}.

[Shemtov]

<iron> <sister> <sangria>
PIE *h₁ésh₂r̥ "Blood">Proto-Celtic *īsarnom "Iron ["Bloody Metal"]">borrowed by PGerm *īsarną>O. īren> <Iron>
>*PIE su-h₁ésh₂-ōr "self-blood-FEM">PGerm *swestēr> O:eng:sweostor>:eng: sister
> sanguis "blood"> sangre>:esp: sangria "blood like [drink]">borrowed sangria

[shimobaatar]

Apparently, "arsenic" might be related to "yellow".

[k1234567890y]

English head(native Germanic word), chief, chef(from French, ultimately from Latin), cape(from French, ultimately from Latin), cap(ultimately from Latin), capital(from Latin), jefe(from Spanish, ultimately from Latin), and kapala(from Tibet, ultimately from Sanskrit)

[Shemtov]

English head(native Germanic word), chief, chef(from French, ultimately from Latin), cape(from French, ultimately from Latin), cap(ultimately from Latin), capital(from Latin), jefe(from Spanish, ultimately from Latin), and kapala(from Tibet, ultimately from Sanskrit)

Also Chapter,, from a French doublet of Chief.

[Pabappa]

English head(native Germanic word), chief, chef(from French, ultimately from Latin), cape(from French, ultimately from Latin), cap(ultimately from Latin), capital(from Latin), jefe(from Spanish, ultimately from Latin), and kapala(from Tibet, ultimately from Sanskrit)

from the last one you could then add 瓦 /kawara/ "tile; covering; kneecap".

[Ælfwine]

English magician, via French magicien, via Latin magus, via Greek mágos (itself from an indeterminate Iranian origin)

Chinese wū 巫 "shaman, witch", possibly from Sino-Tibetan *mjaɣ, loaned from Persian *maguš

Somewhat controversial, as wū 巫 could also be from mu 母 meaning mother, given the tradition of female shamanesses.

[svld]

巫 and 母 in oracle bone script look nothing alike though.

[GrandPiano]

巫 and 母 in oracle bone script look nothing alike though.

That doesn’t mean the words themselves aren’t related. They may have already been considered separate words in Old Chinese.

[Creyeditor]

English head(native Germanic word), chief, chef(from French, ultimately from Latin), cape(from French, ultimately from Latin), cap(ultimately from Latin), capital(from Latin), jefe(from Spanish, ultimately from Latin), and kapala(from Tibet, ultimately from Sanskrit)

from the last one you could then add 瓦 /kawara/ "tile; covering; kneecap".

We already had this a few pages ago. There is also Indonesian (!) 'kepala'.

[clawgrip]

巫 and 母 in oracle bone script look nothing alike though.

That doesn’t mean the words themselves aren’t related. They may have already been considered separate words in Old Chinese.

Indeed, it's important not to confuse script etymology with spoken language etymology. Words of common origin are sometimes written with different characters. Japanese in particular is full of this, since kanji is basically a foreign writing system that has nothing to do with Japanese etymology, but Chinese surely has the same thing as well.

[Lambuzhao]

stall
locum > lieu {place, location}
Both come from the PIE root *stel- {to put, place}.

Those crazy Old latin /stl/ words, like stlocus, stlatus, stloppus.

What the hey, Latin?!

[Lambuzhao]

<iron> <sister> <sangria>
PIE *h₁ésh₂r̥ "Blood">Proto-Celtic *īsarnom "Iron ["Bloody Metal"]">borrowed by PGerm *īsarną>O. īren> <Iron>
>*PIE su-h₁ésh₂-ōr "self-blood-FEM">PGerm *swestēr> O:eng:sweostor>:eng: sister
> sanguis "blood"> sangre>:esp: sangria "blood like [drink]">borrowed sangria

Interestingly, Italic also has a representative in the first *h₁ésh₂r̥ category as well.

Old had assyr, aser, ascer 'blood'.

Bloody well right!

[Lambuzhao]

<iron> <sister> <sangria>
PIE *h₁ésh₂r̥ "Blood">Proto-Celtic *īsarnom "Iron ["Bloody Metal"]">borrowed by PGerm *īsarną>O. īren> <Iron>
>*PIE su-h₁ésh₂-ōr "self-blood-FEM">PGerm *swestēr> O:eng:sweostor>:eng: sister
> sanguis "blood"> sangre>:esp: sangria "blood like [drink]">borrowed sangria

Interestingly, Italic also has a representative in the first *h₁ésh₂r̥ category as well.

Old had assyr, aser, ascer 'blood'.

Bloody well right!

Is it by his very blood that mankind is drawn to Mars?

[WeepingElf]

There is this chiastic pattern in the two biggest Germanic languages:

Schaum 'foam' ~ scum
Feim 'scum' ~ foam

Though Feim is now obsolete in Standard German, but the derived adjective abgefeimt 'cunning' is still in use.

[qwed117]

Hindi चाबी caabi /t͡ʃaːbiː/ "key" ~ Spanish llave /ʎaβe/ "key"

Both are from Latin clavis. Hindi gets it from a Portuguese intermediary.

[k1234567890y]

Chinese 車 and English wheel, it is possible that the Chinese word was ultimately a borrowing from a word for wheel from Indo-European languages

[Imralu]

Chinese 車 and English wheel, it is possible that the Chinese word was ultimately a borrowing from a word for wheel from Indo-European languages

Posts like this would be more interesting if you include the pronunciation.