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

There’s no sign of her, or any cognate character, in the film.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 31, 2016

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

Others include paving stones, Gascon folk tales, parataxis, punctuation, cognates, medieval architecture and sheepdogs.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 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

REMARK.—These sixteen sounds make eight pairs of cognates.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey