ADJECTIVE
- related by blood
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related in nature
connate qualities -
having the same ancestral language
cognate languages
NOUN
- one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
- a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
How To Use cognate In A Sentence
- It is a dialect form of Old Fr. gaite, cognate with watch. The Romance of Names
- I am not sure if nashaq is a denominative of the cognate noun.
- The issue of organisational performance, embedded within the processes of organisational change and adaptation, has led to a rich research literature in a number of cognate disciplines.
- For those who buy into Nostratic or Indo-Uralic there's a possible cognate in Uralic, *t, which is used to form participles and infinitives in Finnic, Saami, Ob-Ugrian, and Samoyedic. The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective model
- In reflecting on the roles and responsibilities of an editor of a learned journal, I am reminded of the analogies made by a fellow editor of a cognate research journal.
- Casino on sundry occasions, and sagaciously preferring places within the range of her experience to bourns neither cognate nor conjecturable, she moved gravely up towards the gate on which the Italian sat; and, after eying him a moment, -- as much as to say, "I wish you would get off," -- came to a deadlock. My Novel — Volume 04
- Not surprisingly, the word violet is derived from the flower of the same name via the French violette or viola, and is cognate with the Greek ion, from which the word iodine is derived. Zolar’s Magick Of Color
- Frisic, or northern Dutch, and the Germanic, in all its recondite phases, with the ancient Gothic, and its cognates, taking in very wide accessions from the Latin, the Gallic, and other languages of southern Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846
- His supporting analyses of property, social structure, poverty, progress, inequality, and cognate topics were wide ranging and deep.
- His book deals with memes and other cognate subjects less frivolously and with much more academic rigour than I can muster.