cognate
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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
Sometimes these films play as horror, sometimes as melodrama, but Queen of Earth, though it fits in the category, is a more controlled cognate.
From Slate • Aug. 26, 2015
A sound without cognate and so without description.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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