Definitions

1. Cognates are words that have a common origin. (Web site)
2. Cognates are verbal cousins, like the Greek podos and the English foot, both descended from a common ancestor. (Web site)
3. False cognates are words that are commonly thought to be related (have a common origin) whereas linguistic examination reveals they are unrelated. (Web site)
4. False cognates are a pair of words in the same or different languages that are similar in form and meaning but have different roots.
5. Yet the cognates are obvious in all the aforementioned cases. (Web site)

Word-Correspondence-Based

1. Word-correspondence-based methods are generally more accurate but much slower, and usually depend on cognates or a bilingual lexicon. (Web site)

Arabic Cognates

1. The Hebrew kus and keus and Arabic cognates also share the common Mediterranean origin of all these words for something essentially female. (Web site)

Close Cognates

1. There are inherited positions of authority for men, or chieftainships called tsunono (in Halia, or close cognates in the other languages).

False Cognates

1. One factor compounding the problem of mutual intelligibility among Philippine languages are those false friends, or false cognates, among the languages.

French

1. False Cognates - Faux amis False cognates are words that look similar (or even identical) in French and English, but that have different meanings. (Web site)

Modern

1. The word Earth has cognates in many modern as well as defunct - including ancient - languages.

References

1. Cognates with English Main article: German cognates with English This section does not cite any references or sources.

Virtually

1. Virtually every word in Pāḷi has cognates in the other Prakritic " Middle Indo-Aryan languages ", e.g., the Jain Prakrits.

Prince

1. The Slavic word knjaz and the Baltic kunigas (today translated as prince) are actually cognates of King. (Web site)
2. Various cognates of the word Fürst exist in other European languages (see extensive list under Prince), sometimes only used for a princely ruler.

Names

1. Interestingly, the names of Creiddylad's and Gwyn's fathers are cognates of the same figure.

Etc

1. Whatever its aesthetic merits, "elevator music" and its cognates -- easy-listening, Muzac, mood music, etc.

Sense

1. Using false cognates with their English sense, like using Spanish aplicaci�n in the sense of English "application", is another form of Spanglish.

Shared

1. Ido's vocabulary attempts to use cognates that are shared in common by as many of its six source languages as possible.

Language

1. The language contains a lot of Malay and some Javanese cognates, but they usually have their own distinctively Banjarese counterparts.

Linguistics

1. Cognates in linguistics are words that have a common etymological origin. (Web site)

Spanish

1. The true origins of the name España and its cognates "Spain" and "Spanish" are disputed.
2. Word borrowings from English to Spanish are more common, using false cognates in their English senses, or calquing idiomatic English expressions. (Web site)
3. A common example are nouns ended in -aje in Spanish, which are normally masculine, and their Portuguese cognates ending in -agem, which are feminine.

Unrelated

1. The 16000 terms Indo-Iranian terms are cognates with ossetic words and not unrelated to Ossetian words or else Abaev would not mention it.

Vulgar Latin

1. These words are cognates since French venir evolved from Vulgar Latin. (Web site)

Name

1. The name of the Bartians, a Prussian tribe, and the name of the Bārta river in Latvia are possibly cognates.

Sanskrit

1. The Sanskrit derived cognates in Hindi are "Raja" meaning King and also the name of an ethnic group: Rajput meaning progeny of Rajas.

Latin

1. There is also at least one example of a common borrowing from a Non-Germanic source (ounce and its cognates from Latin).

Etymology

1. Etymology and cognates in other languages The Chinese character for tea is 茶, but it is pronounced differently in the various Chinese dialects.

Related Words

1. For the etymology of chai and related words see etymology and cognates of tea.

Various Languages

1. Cognates of this term for boat are widely distributed among speakers of various languages of South Sulawesi (Grimes and Grimes 1987:172–173). (Web site)

Meanings

1. There are cognates whose meanings in either language have changed through the centuries. (Web site)

Indo-European Language

1. Pashto, being an Indo-European language, shares many cognates with other related languages.

Different

1. Their many cognates and common Indo-European foundation mean that the two languages are more alike than they are different. (Web site)
2. The word liberalism and its cognates have different (albeit related) meanings in various countries. (Web site)
3. However, there are also a great many falsos amigos, or false cognates, which look similar but are in fact very different. (Web site)

Germanic Language

1. The word borough has cognates in virtually every Germanic language, as well as other Indo-European languages.

Germanic Languages

1. It may derive from "tip" in the sense "to tap, to strike lightly" or in the sense "extremity", both of which have cognates in other Germanic languages. (Web site)
2. According to one theory, the Goths may have been responsible for the diffusion of the word "church", and its cognates, among the Germanic languages. (Web site)
3. Further cognates of the same word in other Germanic languages would include German Schürze and Dutch schort "apron". (Web site)

Old English

1. Cloth dates back to Old English, and there are cognates in most of the Germanic languages; it seems to have made the Germanic rounds by the 12th century.

Old High German

1. Finite forms of this verb are not attested elsewhere in Old English, but it has cognates in Gothic and Old High German, as Holthausen saw. (Web site)

Greek

1. The term “asva” and its cognates are found in sanskrit, the Avestan language, Latin and Greek and other Indo-European languages.

Theos

1. The root "De" is the same as found in "Zeus", "Deus", and "Theos", all of which are cognates. (Web site)

Romance Languages

1. The Romance languages all have cognates, as does Greek: musselin.

Modern Romance Languages

1. Given metathesis, we can find cognates of "earth" between terra and the modern Romance languages, for instance tierra in Spanish or terra in Portuguese. (Web site)

Terms

1. Argr (also ragr) is "unmanly" and ergi is "unmanliness"; the terms have cognates in other Germanic languages such as earh, earg, arag, arug, and so on.
2. Finland-Swedish has a set of separate terms, being close cognates of their Finnish counterparts, chiefly terms of law and government. (Web site)

Kinship

1. The kinship with other Germanic languages can be seen in the large amount of cognates. (Web site)
2. There are many cognates found in the languages' words for kinship, health, body parts and common animals. (Web site)

Examples

1. Cognates may often be less easily recognised than the above examples and authorities sometimes differ in their interpretations of the evidence. (Web site)

Illustrating

1. This is a small sample of cognates in basic vocabulary across Uralic, illustrating the sound laws (based on the Encyclopædia Britannica and Hakkinen 1979).
2. This is a sample of cognates in basic vocabulary across Uralic, illustrating the sound laws (based on the Encyclopædia Britannica and Hakkinen 1979).

Vocabulary

1. There some changes in semantics and some uniquely Rapa Nui words but the majority of the vocabulary has cognates elsewhere in Polynesia.
2. Verify meanings with a native speaker or a good dictionary before incorporating these cognates into your vocabulary. (Web site)

Meaning

1. Note that in general two cognates don't have the same meaning; they merely have the same origin. (Web site)
2. Pagel says the team found that they were used at similar rates across the board even if the words with the same meaning were not cognates.
3. The root also has cognates in extinct languages such as ertha in Old Saxon and ert (meaning "ground") in Middle Irish, derived from the Old English eor�e. (Web site)

English

1. Below, a few common Mazanderani words & their English cognates are listed for sample.
2. It is a very old word, recorded in English since the 15th century (few acronyms predate the 20th century), with cognates in other Germanic languages. (Web site)
3. For example, Hawaiian and English have 0 cognates in the 200-word list, so they are 0% genetically related. (Web site)

English Word

1. The English word "earth" has cognates in many modern and ancient languages. (Web site)
2. For example, the form Sterben and other terms for die are cognates with the English word starve.

English Words

1. The English words "divine", "deity", Latin "deus", French "dieu", are cognates of deva. (Web site)

Word

1. The word "variety" is employed in the sense of a mathematical manifold, for which, in Romance languages, cognates of the word "variety" are used.
2. Words in two or more daughter languages that derive from the same word in the ancestral language are known as cognates. (Web site)
3. Further cognates of the same word in other Germanic "Spain" and "Spanish" are disputed.

Words

1. These words are all cognates, similar words in different languages that share the same root. (Web site)
2. Lithuanian retains cognates to many words found in classical languages, such as Sanskrit and Latin.
3. The ancient Macedonian lexical stock reveals some words that do not have cognates in Greek, but do have in other Indo-European languages.

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