cognate languages have many of the same roots for words. From LearnThat.org.
cognate languages. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : such cognate languages as French and Spanish. From Dictionary.com.
The English lieutenant is a direct cognate from the French. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1] Reference
We welcome work from historians or those in cognate disciplines, including gender studies, Native American studies, religious studies, or cultural studies. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
It seems rather to be an altered form of a Scandinavian personal name cognate with Odo. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
Basically the diferent groups decided on the same word, a compound of 'fire' and 'water', which were both terms cognate between the different languages. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference
The Winnebagoes, who speak a cognate dialect of the Dacotah, were encamped near; and resembled them in their style of lodges, arts, and general decorations. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
This term has two distinct, though cognate, meanings. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
Feedback on whether "cognate" faculty are really available for work with philosophy PhD students is especially welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog] Reference
Among other cognate tribes we find the same thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
The Timne and cognate languages of Sierra Leone and the north. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The instincts of men are always right in this and all cognate matters. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
It was no wonder that one set of freaks felt cognate with another set. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
The master and slave are often of cognate races, and therefore tend more to assimilate. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
He would go beyond the cognate universe, straight into the golden heart of universes beyond. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
This brings us naturally to the consideration of the rain-rhymes in English and cognate tongues. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
I have not pursued the matter of cognate linkages (the Watt and Evans linkages are cognates) because the. From Wordnik.com. [Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt] Reference
The advocates of the second ballot and cognate methods of reform seek a solution of this one problem only. From Wordnik.com. [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference
The Specific Difference of anything is the attribute or attributes which distinguish it from its cognate species. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Each has been cultivated as if it had no relation external to itself, and was not one of a family of cognate truths. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Here, as in other cognate parables, great wisdom is displayed in bringing the whole force of the rebuke to bear on one point. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
The generic difference is common to species that are cognate to one another, whereas the specific difference is peculiar to each. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Any classes which fall immediately under the same genus are called cognate Species, e.g. singular and common terms are cognate species of term. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The transformation fables that have descended to us would seem to be fossils of a pagan faith once common to the Celtic and other cognate races. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
On the back of the paper "jacket" and on the little flaps that turn at the sides of a book, it is customary to put advertisements of cognate books. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
James Boswell in 1821, is a mine of information on theatrical history and cognate matters, which will probably always be of value to students of the period. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
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