Which language is the closest to Ukrainian?

[Andrej]

I know this is old but I want to correct a few things here.

First, StasUA, the Russian equivalent of "dobre" is "dobro" not "horosho". Russian simply has a wide vulcabulary, so there are several words with a similar meaning. For example "Kon" and "Loshad", the latter being a Turkish word, both meaning 'horse'.

Zybresk, the word Grozny would actually mean, 'one that posses a threat', dangerous, not terrible as it is commonly translated into English. Grazit, Ugrazhat, means to threaten, Ugroza is a threat. So happy gunner's translation was correct. It can mean both awe as in the case of 'Ivan Grozny' and a simple threat in the form of 'Grazit tyurma' (threat of imprisonment). 'On ugrazhal mne' (he threatned me). Perhaps lightning is both awesome and threatning ? ;P

[happy_gunner]

Originally posted by Volodya987
Computer studies, years ago, found that Ukrainian, spoken correctly, is the centre of Indo-European languages ie it is the least deviated from the original. It is older than Sanscrit.

The centre of Indo-European Languages is pure guesswork, nothing else.
The most educated guesses now choose Armenia

Originally posted by Volodya987
A long time ago, someone carried out experiments, where people listened to different Indo-European languages, trying to decide which was the most "musical" and pleasant sounding to the ear. It was a dead heat between Italian, spoken correctly, and Ukrainian, spoken correctly, as to who won this particular competition.
[/b]

Ukrainian is pleasant sounding, but do you know which Italian they played?

[Kathy]

First, StasUA, the Russian equivalent of "dobre" is "dobro" not "horosho". Russian simply has a wide vulcabulary, so there are several words with a similar meaning. For example "Kon" and "Loshad", the latter being a Turkish word, both meaning 'horse'.

"Dobre" is either kind or good, depending on context. So, the equivalent can be either dobro in Russian, which means "kind" or "good" (as in Ukrainian) or horosho. A similar word in Ukrainian (to horosho) is harazd.

Horse in Ukrainian - kin' (only males) or kobela (only mares).

[Zbyszek]

Originally posted by Kathy
Horse in Ukrainian - kin' (only males) or kobela (only mares).

[/b]

Greetings Kathy, hello Andrej, I am sure there must be more words describing horses in Ukrainian because it was critically important animal, well represented in literature:
Mabe you will find some words similar to the following PL ones:
1. Kon [general Slavic word, in PL it can be attributed to both sexes]
2. Rumak [nice literary word reserved for horse's "aristocrats", probably of Turkish origin]
3. Kobyla [you mentioned this one, in PL it is horse's lower/middle class]
4. Klacz - mare
5. Szkapa - somewhat funny word describing a typical horse's proletarian
6. Chabeta -horse's peasant (LOL!)
7. Ogier - stallion
8. Walach [read valakh] -gelding


[in chess] kon, konik, skoczek - knight

[ricardo]

Nice and long thread anyway I just wanted to have my say as an Ukranian descendant I have also found different words used according to people or the regions they came from most notably people like Halechany and Hutsuli have a lot of different words many of them Polish in origin.
Though my parents came from next door to Galitzia my version of Ukranian (most words identified as Ukranian on this thread is what I know)somewhat different from theirs and yet I speak very little Russian but I would love to learn more languages and the same goes for Polish and other languages too.
At work when I first came to Australia as an immigrant I found myself speaking in a number of languages in a small confine it was an incredible experience to speak Spanish, Ukranian, Italian, French and some Russian all in a matter of seconds exchanging greetings and engaging in conversations I must confess I was tired before starting work

[Volodya987]

The language spoken in Makhedonia is very close to Ukrainian.

[Volodya987]

In some areas of Ukraine, there may be different terms for "a 4 legged animal used by pig/dog as a weapon of war".
But, in native Ukrainian:
K = the sound of "sh$t from a high ars$hole hitting a paved road, and the picture of a high velocity sharp point about to maim/kill one of us.
I = add, and
H* (called N in English) = graft.
ie The original weapon of genocide.
Kin* exactly describes, in pictures, sounds and concept, the ancient "humvee."
* The H in Kin is pronounced like the n in new, not the n in nutcase, and to denote this we use the symbol for the musical flat.
This broken arrowhead is placed after the H, but a bit below, so that it overwrites the line in the exercise book.
This is to remind us:
(a) to read between the lines of you propoganda, and
(b) what you did to our ancestors so that you could graft yourself onto our backyard.


[Edited by Volodya987 on 25th February 2004 at 21:31]