cognate word

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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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Questions about cognate word

What does cognate word mean?

cognate word means "a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language".

What is another word for cognate word?

Close synonyms include cognate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cognate word a common word?

cognate word is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.