51Թ

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cognation

[ kog-ney-shuhn ]

noun

  1. cognate relationship.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cognation1

1350–1400; Middle English cognacioun (< Anglo-French, Old French ) < Latin Dzپō- (stem of Dzپō ) kinship, equivalent to Dz ( us ) cognate + -ō- -ion
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Example Sentences

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Dr. John Pye Smith says that 'the confusion of language was probably only to a certain point, not destroying cognation.'

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Perhaps the latter infers how close the cognation of the creative and the critical faculty.

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All of them are not ashamed of kindred and cognation with charity.

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Grammatic similarities are not supposed to furnish evidence of cognation, but to be phenomena, in part relating to stage of culture and in part adventitious.

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Associated words: cognate, cognation, matricide, maternalism, uterine, matriarchy, matriarchal. motherhood, n. maternity. motherly, a. maternal. mother-of-pearl, n. nacre. motion, n. movement, activity; gesture, signal, gesticulation; port, gait; impulse.

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