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cognate

[kog-nayt] / ˈkɒg neɪt /


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But the last word in his name is a cognate for the Chinese word for death, which bothers more superstitious clientele.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

There's no close cognate to Liz Truss in American politics, and there's definitely nothing similar to the bizarre intra-party process that has landed her in Downing Street.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2022

“Domain” derives from Old French, denoting heritable or landed property; its Latin-derived cognate, “domicile,” means, of course, “home.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

This is what I most want from TV: something literary, which I wish we had a good TV cognate for so I don’t sound like such a tool using it here!

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2020

A sound without cognate and so without description.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

So I could tell you who his cognates are for Achilles, Hector, Helen of Troy, Aphrodite, Odysseus and a whole bunch of others.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2024

For instance, English ‘water’ and German ‘wasser’ are clearly related, making them cognates that derive from the same ancient word—an example of stability.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 23, 2021

They are using computers to sort giant databases of cognates and generate millions of possible family trees based on assumptions about, say, how quickly languages split.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2016

As Romei’s book, which tells the story of how he met his wife, Esther, trickles in via fax, Shira notices deliberate tricks and traps—false cognates, syllepses, paronomasia—that seem intended to trip up a translator.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2016

Most of these Onomatopoieias vanish as soon as we trace our own names back to Anglo-Saxon and Gothic, or compare them with their cognates in Greek, Latin, or Sanskrit.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller




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