cognate

The word “pajama” stems from Persian/Farsi, as I learned in my medieval Persian seminar in college after a life of speaking Farsi at home but somehow never registering the echo of this particular cognate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024

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

There’s no sign of her, or any cognate character, in the film.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 31, 2016

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

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

A quick search of the plan brings up the word terror and its cognates in 377 places, hurricane in five.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2016

We have therefore removed it, and put in its place the possession which the praetor promises to the nearest cognates, and which we have thus made the fifth kind instead of the sixth.

From The Institutes of Justinian by Moyle, John Baron