Cognate collection

Definition of cognate in English:

 
 
 
cognate
ADJECTIVE

1Linguistics
(of a word) having the same linguistic derivation as another (e.g. English father, German Vater, Latin pater)
‘the term is obviously cognate with the Malay segan’
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2formal Related; connected.
‘cognate subjects such as physics and chemistry’
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2.1 Related to or descended from a common ancestor.
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