cognate
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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 • Apr. 1, 2023
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
These two action scenes, coming in quick succession, are—moment for moment, shot for shot, beat for beat—better than the cognate action scenes in “Mission: Impossible—Fallout.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2018
A sound without cognate and so without description.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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