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Type Words
Synonyms cognate word
Type of word
Type Words
Synonyms blood relation, blood relative, sib
Type of relation, relative
Type Words
Synonyms akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin
Type Words
Synonyms connate
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cognate languages.

Examples of cognate

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In this case, the Etruscan Twelve might have been cognate to the Hittite Twelve.
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The English Dutch, the Dutch dietsch, and the German deutsch are cognate words.
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The word is clearly cognate with the Esperanto name for the United States, Usono.
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Is the list supposed to include English words that are cognate with Old Norse?
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In the compound Wednesday, the first member is cognate to the genitive Odin's.
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In some West Germanic languages cognate words of a different etymology exist.
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A cognate form of this pronoun exists in almost every other Indo-European language.
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By comparison, ASL and BANZSL have only 31% signs identical, or 44% cognate.
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According to one school of scholars, the Gandharas and Kambojas were cognate people.
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More examples
  • Blood relation: one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
  • Connate: related in nature; "connate qualities"
  • A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
  • Having the same ancestral language; "cognate languages"
  • (cognation) matrilineage: line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family
  • In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common etymological origin.
  • One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; One who is related to another on the female side; One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages; A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the ...
  • (Cognates) ( words that have the same or very similar form and/or meaning) scales ( words showing degrees )
  • (Cognates) words so similar from one language to the next as to suggest that both are variants of a single ancestral prototype.