cognate Meaning and Definition
1. n. a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
2. n. one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
3. s. related by blood
4. s. having the same ancestral language
5. s. related in nature
In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common etymological origin. In etymology, the cognate category excludes doublets and loan words.
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