cognate word

/ˌkɑgˈneɪt wərd/
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Other forms: cognate words

Definitions of cognate word
  1. noun
    a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
    synonyms: cognate
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    type of:
    word
    a unit of language that native speakers can identify
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