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- noun Plural form of
cognate .
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These kinds of related words known as cognates are common in various languages.
Five Ways Your Bible Translation Distorts the Original Meaning of the Text 2011
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15To initiate the lexicostatistic exercise, however, one must first determine whether the words claimed to be inherited from a proto-language are indeed shared retentions of particular old cognates, that is, if they truly stem from a common root that shared a common meaning.
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This tactic of using obscure sound changes without a clear phonetic explanation or demonstrated regularity in order to rationalize any set of "cognates" one wishes was one of Starostin's many unscholarly idiosyncracies.
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The database stores around 210 of these words per language; Gray's team focused on 400 languages in total and pulled out sets of equivalent words, or "cognates", from each of them.
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"cognates," and for a long time property could not pass to them.
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I believe that most if not all false cognates between English and Spanish come from Latin.
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It is believed, too, that Arcimboldo had first-hand acquaintance with Leonardo's drawings of grotesque heads, many of which belonged to a family friend; the irregular profiles of the composite heads often have remarkable cognates in Leonardo's distorted profiles.
The Proto-Surrealist Karen Wilkin 2010
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Since there are so many true cognates, the ones that break this pattern can be quite disconcerting to them! zaragemca
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Since there are so many true cognates, the ones that break this pattern can be quite disconcerting to them! zaragemca
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English has far too many false cognates with Spanish.
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