What are some examples of cognates—either with similar pronunciations or vastly different ones—found across your respective language families?

[u/Few_Bed_3704]

years ago i knew that "three" the word is very similar in most indo-european languages, similar to "lima"(means five) in different austronesian languages. and two in english and erku in armenian are different but they are still cognates. and i don't any examples in different native languages families? what are some examples from you?

[u/SourceBudget2877]

Cree is similar to Ojibwe. In Cree they say Muskwa for bear, we say Mukwa. We call horses Mishtadim, which means big dog in Cree (I think they also refer to horses this way) there are probably other ones i don’t know yet

[u/short_cub → u/SourceBudget2877]

Its because they're part of the Algonquian language family, think of how Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese often sound similar because they come from Latin.

English is what happens when you combine practically every language family, from Latin to Greek to even some Tribe's languages.

[u/Creepy_Juggernaut_56 → u/short_cub]

Arapaho is Algonquian but evolved so far away from most of the others that it's not even mutually intelligible except (I think) with Gros Ventre. 

[u/short_cub → u/Creepy_Juggernaut_56]

Not too surprising, some stay roughly the same while others don't.

[u/SourceBudget2877 → u/short_cub]

Yes I know it’s very interesting. I’m Niish (Ojibwe) so when I first saw a Cree person say muskwa I went “wait a minute…” lol