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It seems that Arpa is right. The armenian-basque relation as remanents of a pre-indoeuropean languages seems to be a very weak theory that almost nobody accepts. But it's curious. Vahan Sarkisian, an armenian linguist has write a 600 words list with similar words between basque and armenian: toponimics as Araxes or Deba and ancient words as "ardo" in basque ("wine") and "ort" in armenian (also means "wine"?). If I found the list, I'll post it to you. Despite of this, basque linguists are agree with Arpa's opinion that they are only coincidences. I supose that you know this article: a evolutinary-like tree with all indoeuropean lenguages. The armenian seems to be a very ancient branch, but it's INTO the tree. The basque is OUT, it's pre-indoeuropean. In fact, they don't mention it in the article. http://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/psych/rese...tkinson2003.pdf So, I must continue looking for an origin for the basque word of "sirats". I'll try with the old french languages. If I find a forum with people that helps me as well as you have done, I think that in a week I'll became an expert linguist. Thank you very much for everything. If some day you want some information about basque language or our country, write me without fear.

First of all, thanks for being so fast answering to me. Trying to do the same effort to answer to Storming, i'm looking for links about this subjet, but i can't find an english link yet. But i found many pages in basque. In one of them, there is a translation to spanish of an interview to Vahan Sarkisian, an armenian linguist. www.euskonews.com/0059zbk/elkar5901es.html I will give you more information when i found.

I'm a basque language student, and now i'm looking for the ethimology of a word: "Sirats". In basque means "fate, luck". But it's not very clear its origin. Lookin for it, I found many armenian web pages were this word is mentioned (this forum was one of them). It has intrigued me because there is a hypothese that conects the basque language with the armenian (as remains of pre-indoeuropean languages). Can you tell me what is the meaning of this word in armenian? Or else, where can i found an Armenian-English dictionary on-line?