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Cognate

In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.

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Examples

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Characteristics

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Related terms

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Distinctions

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Characteristics

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Distinctions

Related terms

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Cognate

Nodes61
Edges60
Triples75
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032787
Components1

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Cognate

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related to Examples · 25
Cognate → Albanian, Amharic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, English, For, French, German Nacht, Greek, Hebrew, Indo-European, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Semitic, Russian, Sanskrit, Swedish
related to Distinctions · 13
Cognate → Although, Cognates, Doublets, English, For, French, German, Kuh, Loanwords, Often, Old French, They, Translations
related to False cognates · 12
Cognate → English, False, For, German, Habēre, However, Latin, Likewise, PIE, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European, Spanish
related to Etymon (ancestor word) and descendant words · 11
Cognate → An, Descendants, For, In, Irish, Polish, Proto-Celtic, Proto-Slavic, Russian, These, Welsh
related to Characteristics · 9
Cognate → An, Armenian, Cognates, Dutch, English, For, French, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European
related to Name · 2
Cognate → Latin, The English

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Important terminology

cognates words english language word example languages etymon root meaning similar latin french often different ancestor also german proto-indo-european one

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
suffixesinstance ofa nuanced distinction can sometimes be made between a descendant and a derivative.A derivative is one of the words that have their source in a root word and were at some time cr…0.80text
prefixesinstance ofa nuanced distinction can sometimes be made between a descendant and a derivative.A derivative is one of the words that have their source in a root word and were at some time cr…0.80text
and slight changes to the vowels or to the consonants of the root wordinstance ofa nuanced distinction can sometimes be made between a descendant and a derivative.A derivative is one of the words that have their source in a root word and were at some time cr…0.80text
Cognaterelated to CharacteristicsCognates0.60section
Cognaterelated to CharacteristicsFor0.60section
Cognaterelated to CharacteristicsEnglish0.60section
Cognaterelated to CharacteristicsDutch0.60section
Cognaterelated to CharacteristicsProto-Germanic0.60section
Cognaterelated to CharacteristicsFrench0.60section
Cognaterelated to CharacteristicsArmenian0.60section
Cognaterelated to CharacteristicsProto-Indo-European0.60section
Cognaterelated to CharacteristicsAn0.60section

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