Definizione monolingua

cognate

cognate (plural cognates)

1. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
2. (law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
3. (law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
4. A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.

   English mother is a cognate of Greek ?????? (m?téra), German Mutter, Russian ???? (mat’) and Persian ???? (madar).

   English queen and quean, Russian ???? (žená), Icelandic kona and Irish bean are all cognates.

cognate (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Either descended from the same attested source lexeme of ancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regular reflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form of proto-language.

   English mother is cognate to Greek ?????? (m?téra), German Mutter, Russian ???? (mat’) and Persian ???? (madar).

   In English, queen is cognate to quean, both of which are cognate to Russian ???? (žená), Icelandic kona and Irish bean.

   In English, shirt is cognate to skirt, both descended from the Proto-Indo-European word *sker-, meaning ""to cut"".

Definizione dizionario cognate

	affine
	derived from the same roots

analogo

congiunto

consanguineo

parente

parole imparentate

Altri significati:

A word derived from the same roots as another word.

One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.

Genealogy: A blood relative in the female line.

'''English queen and quean, Russian ???? (žená), Icelandic kona and Irish bean are all cognates.'''

(law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.

'''English mother is cognate to Greek ?????? (m?téra), German Mutter, Russian ???? (mat’) and Persian ???? (madar).'''

word derived from the same roots as a given word

A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.

One related by blood or origin with another, especially a person sharing an ancestor with another.

'''In English, queen is cognate to quean, both of which are cognate to Russian ???? (žená), Icelandic kona and Irish bean.'''

'''English mother is a cognate of Greek ?????? (m?téra), German Mutter, Russian ???? (mat’) and Persian ???? (madar).'''

(linguistics) Either descended from the same attested source lexeme of ancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regular reflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form of proto-language.