A table made by Jahukyan ( from Martirosyan's paper ).

 A table made by Jahukyan ( from Martirosyan's paper ).

It is hard to understand why Indic can be closer than the Iranic, but one possible explanation is the interaction of early Proto-Armenian with Mitanni Aryans in Bronze Age. Armenian has large number of loanwords from Iranian but those are mostly cultural loanwords which are not part of native vocabulary.

One example of native word that has a parallel in Sanskrit but not in Iranic languages is the word arew (արեւ ) meaning sun, initially red sun. The cognate in Sanskrit is ravi.

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