What is "cognate" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does cognate mean in English? Meaning of cognate definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "cognate" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "cognate": one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another

Noun

  • Meaning: one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
  • Synonyms: blood relation blood relative cognate sib
  • Hypernyms: relation relative
  • Meaning of "cognate": related in nature

    Adjective

  • Meaning: related in nature
  • Example: connate qualities
  • Synonyms: cognate connate
  • Similar: related related to
  • Meaning of "cognate": a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language

    Noun

  • Meaning: a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
  • Synonyms: cognate cognate word
  • Hypernyms: word
  • Meaning of "cognate": having the same ancestral language

    Adjective

  • Meaning: having the same ancestral language
  • Example: cognate languages
  • Synonyms: cognate
  • Similar: related related to
  • Meaning of "cognate": related by blood

    Adjective

  • Meaning: related by blood
  • Synonyms: akin blood-related cognate consanguine consanguineal consanguineous kin
  • Similar: related
  • Adjective: Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred.(linguistics) Either descended from the same attested source lexeme of an ancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regular reflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form of a proto-language. English mother is cognate to Greek μητέρα (mētéra), German Mutter, Russian мать (matʹ) and Persian مادر (madar). In English, queen is cognate to quean, both of which are cognate to Russian жена́ (žená), Icelandic kona and Irish bean. In English, shirt is cognate to skirt, both descended from the Proto-Indo-European root *sker-, meaning "to cut".
  • Synonyms:

    agnate, like, generic, universal, kindred, same, general, incident, affiliated, akin, allied, analogous, comparable, connected, related, similar, connate, connatural, consanguine,

    Antonyms:

    unlike, individual, specific, dissimilar, different, particular, disassociated, unalike, unallied, unconnected,

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    cognate in English: cognate
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