cognate

There's no close cognate to Liz Truss in American politics, and there's definitely nothing similar to the bizarre intra-party process that has landed her in Downing Street.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2022

“Domain” derives from Old French, denoting heritable or landed property; its Latin-derived cognate, “domicile,” means, of course, “home.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

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 ● Mar. 25, 2019

In Vienna, we get a pair of cognate comedic action scenes that provide a cinematic high from which the movie only gradually comes down.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2018

A sound without cognate and so without description.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

So I could tell you who his cognates are for Achilles, Hector, Helen of Troy, Aphrodite, Odysseus and a whole bunch of others.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2024

For instance, English ‘water’ and German ‘wasser’ are clearly related, making them cognates that derive from the same ancient word—an example of stability.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 23, 2021

Others include paving stones, Gascon folk tales, parataxis, punctuation, cognates, medieval architecture and sheepdogs.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021

They are using computers to sort giant databases of cognates and generate millions of possible family trees based on assumptions about, say, how quickly languages split.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2016

The four subvocals b, d, j, g, and their cognates, p, t, ch, and k, are generally classed as mutes.

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. Cavins