cognacy
English
Noun
cognacy (countable and uncountable, plural cognacies)
- (linguistics) The relationship between cognates; the condition of sharing a common ancestor term in another language.
- 2000, Bernd Heine & Derek Nurse, African Languages: An Introduction, →ISBN, page 262:
- First, in depending on vocabulary, as opposed to morphology or grammar, one runs the risk of assuming cognacy between similar words when the real explanation is borrowing.
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- (linguistics) The degree to which two languages share cognates, usually expressed as a percentage
Synonyms
- (relationship between cognates): cognateness
Further reading
- cognacy at OneLook Dictionary Search
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