a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
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a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
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(linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "‘electricity’ is a derivative of ‘electric’"
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Etymology, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Etymology, Historical word formation.a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Etymology, Historical word formation.(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Etymology, Historical word formation.(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Etymology, Historical word formation.(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Etymology, Historical word formation.a word borrowed from another language; e.g. ‘blitz’ is a German word borrowed into modern English
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.a word borrowed from another language; e.g. ‘blitz’ is a German word borrowed into modern English
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to hi…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted i…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.a newly invented word or phrase
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "‘won't’ is a contraction of ‘will not’"; "‘o'clock’ is a c…
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Ancestral.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.any set of axioms from which some or all axioms can be used in conjunction to logically derive theorems.; "An axiomatic system is said…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.To receive; to take; to derive.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primaevus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Ro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.The state of being cognate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognate, derive, ancestral, language.
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