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English

cognates

noun

Meaning

  1. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
  2. One who is related to another on the female side.
  3. One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
  4. A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.

Etymology / origin

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Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data