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Cognate meaning
Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side. | Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root. | Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
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A good Honours Degree with minimum of Second Class (Lower), Higher Degree of Masters in Library Science with Three (3) years of cognate experience.
A cognate Latin word aevum or aeuum (cf.
Among the apparently cognate-less words are many basic words with properties that contrast with similar-meaning words of pan-Chinese derivation.
As an alternative to lei (originally the genitive form), Italian has the pronoun ella, a cognate of the other words for "she", but it is hardly ever used in speaking.
A second print from the original plate is called a "ghost print" or "cognate".
Beta elements were seen as cognate to the underpinnings of the "basic assumptions" identified in his work with groups: "the fundamental anxieties that underlie the basic assumption group resistances were originally thought of as proto-mental phenomena.
Brunei Malay is rather divergent from standard Malay and the rest of the Malay dialects, being about 84% cognate with standard Malay, P. W. Martin and G. Poedjosoedarmo (1996).
Characteristics of cognate words Cognates do not need to have the same meaning, which may have changed as the languages developed separately.
Cognate words developed, including Tuscia and Tusculanensis.
Compare modern Swedish gjuta "pour, perfuse, found", modern Dutch gieten, modern German gießen, Gothic giutan, old Scandinavian giota, old English geotan all cognate with Latin fondere "to pour" and old Greek cheo "I pour".
Despite the apparent equivalence between the Tocharian A and B vowel systems, in fact a number of vowels are not cognate between the two varieties, and Proto-Tocharian had a different vowel system from either.
Etymology The English term "empirical" derives from the Greek word ἐμπειρία, which is cognate with and translates to the Latin experientia, from which we derive the word "experience" and the related "experiment".
Etymology The name Dagda may ultimately be derived from the Proto-Indo-European *Dhagho-deiwos "shining divinity", the first element being cognate with the English word " day ", and possibly a byword for a deification of a notion such as "splendour".
False friends do exist; for example, cháu means "to run" in Taiwanese, whereas the Mandarin cognate, zǒu, means "to walk".
For example, neftś "nephew", is probably from Latin (Latin nepōs, nepōtis; this is a cognate of German Neffe, Old Norse nefi).
For example, the Portuguese word fresta is descended from Latin fenestra "window" (and is thus cognate to French fenêtre, Italian finestra, Romanian fereastră and so on), but now means "skylight" and "slit".
He held the idea that pleasure is the highest good. citation Etymology The name derives from the Greek word for "delight" ( ἡδονισμός main hēdonismos from ἡδονή main hēdonē "pleasure", cognate with English sweet + suffix -ισμός -ismos " ism ").
However, because of the way words in the two languages evolved from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) roots, they cannot be cognate (see for example Grimm's law ).
In addition, a variety of place names (such as Frøal and Fröale) have been seen as containing an element cognate to Gothic alhs and Old English ealh ("temple"), although these place names may be otherwise interpreted.
In addition to these primary cases, however, each Tocharian language has six cases formed by the addition of an invariant suffix to the oblique case — although the same six cases are not the same in each language, and the suffixes are largely non-cognate.