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Categories: Comparative linguistics, Articles with short description, Historical linguistics

cognate cognate word Cognacies cognacy Cognate form

A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language WordNet 3.0

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A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language. Wikipedia

A word derived from the same roots as another word. OmegaWiki

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. Wiktionary

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