Farsi has plenty of cognates with English too.   My favorite is &quot;Behtar&quot; which means better.   The nice twist is that &quot;Beh&quot; means good, so &quot;Behtar&quot; literally means &quot;gooder&quot;.   English, or some earlier language that became English, probably had a word like &quot;beh&quot; which meant good.   But we lost that word, but kept better.   Farsi still has both words.