What is a cognate?
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What is a cognate?
Cognate
Connections, relations, similarities... Ways by which we bind concepts of similar natures to better understand them helps us better understand the world around us. The word cognate is a catch-all term for that very concept.
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View this answerCognate is an adjective that is used to describe similar concepts. Languages can be considered etymologically cognate. For example the English word...
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