Cognate
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cognate-182-18572317
title:
Cognate
text:
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language. Because language change can have radical effects on both the sound and the meaning of a word, cognates may not be obvious, and it often takes rigorous study of historical sources and the application of the comparative method to establish whether lexemes are cognate. Cognates are distinguished from loanwords, where a word h
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Words inherited by different languages
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate
date created:
2001-09-12T15:41:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T22:25:55Z
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13
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