cognation
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Etymology
Origin of cognation
1350–1400; Middle English cognacioun (< Anglo-French, Old French ) < Latin cognātiōn- (stem of cognātiō ) kinship, equivalent to cognāt ( us ) cognate + -iōn- -ion
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Perhaps the latter infers how close the cognation of the creative and the critical faculty.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
The evidence of cognation is derived exclusively from the vocabulary.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by John Wesley Powell
Relation -- N. relation, bearing, reference, connection, concern, cognation; correlation &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Manloius on "He who runs may read," 374. —— on letters of Horning, 398. —— on America and Tartary, 405. —— on cognation of the Jews and Lacadaemonians, 577.
Neither coincidences nor borrowed material, however, can be properly regarded as evidence of cognation.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by John Wesley Powell
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