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    In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a...
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  • Cognatic kinship is a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor counted through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship...
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  • Look up cognate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cognate (Latin: cognatus, "related by birth") may mean: Cognates, words that have a common etymological...
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  • In linguistics, a cognate object (also known as a cognate accusative or an internal accusative) is a verb's object that is etymologically related to the...
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  • False cognates are pairs of words that seem to be cognates because of similar sounds and meaning, but have different etymologies; they can be within the...
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  • Cognate set may refer to two entities: in music theory, a cognate set is a type of cyclic set in historical linguistics, a cognate set is a set of cognates...
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    In kinematics, cognate linkages are linkages that ensure the same coupler curve geometry or input-output relationship, while being dimensionally dissimilar...
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  • less desirable to cause the death of the monarch. Absolute, equal, (full) cognatic or lineal primogeniture is a form of primogeniture in which sex is irrelevant...
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  • words and roots, with their cognates in all of the major families of descendants. The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the...
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  • In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as the mental discomfort people feel when their beliefs and actions are inconsistent and...
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    In particular, Kikkuli's text includes words such as aika "one" (i.e. a cognate of the Indo-Aryan eka), tera "three" (tri), panza "five" (pancha), satta...
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    most comparative linguists have rejected the proposal, after supposed cognates were found not to be valid, hypothesized sound shifts were not found, and...
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    traditional dominant view, the first component was originally norðr, a cognate of English north, so the full name was Norðr vegr, "the way northwards"...
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    Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning or Dropsie University, at 2321–2335 N Broad St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was America's first degree-granting...
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  • descendant, derivative or derived from an etymon (but see below). Cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent...
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  • Amphidromus cognatus (cognate land snail) is a large camaenid land snail endemic to Australia. Its subgeneric placement is Incertae sedis. Amphidromus...
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  • Look up krone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Krone (the cognate of Crown) may refer to: Crown (headgear) ADC KRONE & The KRONE Group in ADC Telecommunications...
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    Proto-Slavic root *čel-, meaning "member of the people; kinsman", thus making it cognate to the Czech word člověk (a person). The country has been traditionally...
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    the Latin alphabet: SSSR) is the abbreviation of the Russian-language cognate of USSR, as written in Cyrillic letters. The Soviets used this abbreviation...
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  • Cognitive therapy (CT) is a type of psychotherapy developed by American psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck. CT is one therapeutic approach within the larger group...
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    juljulān. Cognate of Maltese ġunġlien or ġulġlien) ràisi – "leader" (رئيس raʾīs. Cognate of Maltese ras "head") saia – "canal" (from ساقية sāqiya. Cognate of...
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  • In Lakota spirituality, Wakan Tanka (Standard Lakota Orthography: Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka) is the term for the sacred or the divine. This is usually translated as...
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    greeting dates at least to Laqit bin Yamar al-Ayadi (6th century), and cognates in older Semitic languages (Aramaic šlāmā ʿalḵōn (ܫܠܵܡܵܐ ܥܲܠܟ݂ܘܿܢ) and...
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    eri, 'man, men, lineage', survives in Hungarian férj 'husband', and is cognate with Mari erge 'son', Finnish archaic yrkä 'young man'. The Roman Empire...
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    Sverige (a compound of the words Svea and rike, first recorded in the cognate Swēorice in Beowulf), translates as "realm of the Swedes", which excluded...
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    Hindush (an eastern province of the Achaemenid Empire), and ultimately its cognate, the Sanskrit Sindhu, or "river", specifically the Indus River and, by...
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    parts of the Christian world, though this taboo does not extend to the cognate Joshua or related forms which are common in many languages even among Christians...
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    Deacon (section Cognates)
    A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological...
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  • clever or ingenious. It is derived from another Polish name Przemysł, cognate to Czech Přemysl. Its diminutive forms include Przemek (the most popular...
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  • people as Bahadır, Batur, and as in other cognate forms. "Han" is the Turkish derivative of "Khan" and is cognate with Hakan, a common masculine Turkish...
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