cognates
- plural of cognate.
Example Sentences
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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
For the study published in Nature, Bowern drew from an expanded database of 800,000 words, which contains 80% of all Australian language data ever published, and looked at cognates from 28 languages across 200 meanings.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2016
As Romei’s book, which tells the story of how he met his wife, Esther, trickles in via fax, Shira notices deliberate tricks and traps—false cognates, syllepses, paronomasia—that seem intended to trip up a translator.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2016
The presence in language of the word infinite and its cognates is decisive evidence of the presence of a faculty capable of entertaining it as a subject for investigation.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.
