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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
Given these similarities, linguists would expect the languages to share many cognates, or words derived from a common ancestor.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2016
“Don’t do it,” I told him, in some bastardized mess of Romance cognates that I wasn’t sure he understood.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2015
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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