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- a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
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- India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius, and Seychelles; in Indonesia the unit of currency is known as the rupiah and in the Maldives the rufiyah, which are cognate words of WN.com - Articles related to Won, rupee fall most among Asian currencies
- Besides, even when the new meanings of existing words were calqued on cognate words in other languages.
- India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius, and Seychelles; in Indonesia the unit of currency is known as the rupiah and in the Maldives the rufiyah, which are cognate words of WN.com - Articles related to Won, rupee fall most among Asian currencies
- There is an interesting but short section on the local adaptive value of cultural rules including dialects and cognate words.
- Shrew, a cognate word, still retains the early pronunciation of shrow on the English stage, though not in common usage. Chapter 8. American Spelling. 1. The Two Orthographies
- English mother and German Mutter are cognate words.
- The Rupee (₨ or Rs.) (Hindi and Urdu: Rupiya, from Sanskrit rupyakam meaning coins of silver) is the common name for the currencies used in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius, and Seychelles; in Indonesia the unit of currency is known as the rupiah and in the Maldives the rufiyah, which are cognate words of Hindi Rupiya. WN.com - Articles related to Won, rupee fall most among Asian currencies
- Broadly defined, a doublet is a pair of cognate words, almost always of Latin or Greco-Latin origin, of which one (here always placed second) retains a form close to the source, while the other has diverged by having passed through Old and Middle French and thence into Middle and Modern English -- though French is occasionally by-passed. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4
