Definition of cognate. Meaning of cognate. Synonyms of cognate

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Definition of cognate

Cognate
Cognate Cog"nate, n. 1. (Law) One who is related to another on the female side. --Wharton. 2. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.

Meaning of cognate from wikipedia

- In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a...
- Cognatic kinship is a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor counted through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship...
- False cognates are pairs of words that seem to be cognates because of similar sounds and meaning, but have different etymologies; they can be within the...
- Cognate set may refer to two entities: in music theory, a cognate set is a type of cyclic set in historical linguistics, a cognate set is a set of cognates...
- Look up cognate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cognate (Latin: cognatus, "related by birth") may mean: Cognates, words that have a common etymological...
- In linguistics, a cognate object (or cognate accusative) is a verb's object that is etymologically related to the verb. More specifically, the verb is...
- In kinematics, cognate linkages are linkages that ensure the same coupler curve geometry or input-output relationship, while being dimensionally dissimilar...
- words and roots, with their cognates in all of the major families of descendants. The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the...
- ruler and disincentivize the killing of the ruler. Absolute, equal, (full) cognatic or lineal primogeniture is a form of primogeniture in which **** is irrelevant...
- In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as the mental discomfort people feel when their beliefs and actions are inconsistent and...