COGNATE WORD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language

Synonyms:

cognate; cognate word

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cognate word" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

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