cognate

Example Sentences

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But the last word in his name is a cognate for the Chinese word for death, which bothers more superstitious clientele.

From Los Angeles Times

She was a Mandarin-language scholar who landed for a while at GCHQ, the British government's cognate to the NSA, where she presumably tracked "signals intelligence" going back and forth between the U.K. and China.

From Salon

They look for cognate words in different languages — words that have similar meanings and that can be shown to have a shared origin in a word from an earlier, ancestral language.

From Nature

Called “Climate of the Hunter,” its closest cognate is perhaps Joni Mitchell’s work of the era: humming bass, philosophical musings, maddening diversions, unresolved refrains.

From Los Angeles Times

There is no character in “Glass” whose creative struggles are at all cognate with Shyamalan’s own.

From The New Yorker