From Latin 'cognatus' (born together) — in linguistics, words sharing a common ancestor across different languages.
Related by birth or origin; in linguistics, a word in one language that shares a common ancestor with a word in another language.
From Latin 'cognātus' (related by blood, born together, kindred), from 'co-' (together) + 'gnātus' (born), an archaic form of 'nātus,' past participle of 'nāscī' (to be born, to come into being). The PIE root is *ǵenh₁- (to beget, to produce, to give birth). The word preserves the archaic Latin 'gn-' cluster that was simplified to 'n-' in later forms like 'native,' 'natal,'
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