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cognacy

noun

Definitions

  1. The relationship between cognates

    The relationship between cognates; the condition of sharing a common ancestor term in another language.

    • First, in depending on vocabulary, as opposed to morphology or grammar, one runs the risk of assuming cognacy between similar words when the real explanation is borrowing.

  2. The degree to which two languages share cognates, usually expressed as a percentage

    • In Table 13.1 are given the percentages for the degrees of cognacy between pairs of languages in the Upper Cross group.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cognacy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA