Cognate
WordNet
adjective
(1) Related by blood
(2) Having the same ancestral language
"Cognate languages"
(3) Related in nature
"Connate qualities"
noun
(4) A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
(5) One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
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Etymology
From , from .
Adjective
- Either descended from the same attested source lexeme of ancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regular reflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form of proto-language.
- English is cognate to Greek , German , Russian and Persian .
- In English, is cognate to , both of which are cognate to Russian , Icelandic and Irish .
- In English, shirt is cognate to skirt, both descended from the Proto-Indo-European word *sker-, meaning "to cut".
Noun
- A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
- English is a cognate of Greek , German , Russian and Persian .
- English and , Russian , Icelandic and Irish are all cognates.