Meaning of cognateship | Babel Free

Definitions

A cognate relationship, cognacy.

uncommon, uncountable

Examples

“Some recent publications, like the Stillmann–Gode “At Sight” series, which stimulate the layman's interest in foreign languages, have made clever use of the cognateship relation between the Romance languages and English. Once this fact has been discovered by the students, i.e., after the very first lesson, they will be inclined to go to the extreme of considering all cognates to be identical twins of English words.”

“The verb is listed in Yamamoto 79b #1718 under the Sibe versions toNquma and toNqəmə, in which the velar nasal may pose a threat to the cognateship proposed for the Japanese verb.”

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