cognate

The word “pajama” stems from Persian/Farsi, as I learned in my medieval Persian seminar in college after a life of speaking Farsi at home but somehow never registering the echo of this particular cognate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024

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

Let the pupil verify this by experiment, and then practice on these cognates.

From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes