Associations to the word «Cognate»
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Adverb
Wiktionary
COGNATE, adjective. Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (legal) related on the mother's side.
COGNATE, adjective. Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred.
COGNATE, adjective. (linguistics) Either descended from the same attested source lexeme of an ancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regular reflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form of a proto-language.
COGNATE, noun. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
COGNATE, noun. (legal) (dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
COGNATE, noun. (legal) (dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
COGNATE, 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.
Dictionary definition
COGNATE, noun. One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another.
COGNATE, noun. A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language.
COGNATE, adjective. Related in nature; "connate qualities".
COGNATE, adjective. Having the same ancestral language; "cognate languages".
COGNATE, adjective. Related by blood.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.