Cognate

Cognates (Latin cognatus, mitgeboren, related '; singular: cognate ) call in linguistics two or more words that have developed from the same root word ( etymon ). Word pairs or larger groups of words that form cognates are called cognate or cognate.

It does not matter whether the words belong to the same language. The meaning may have remained the same or have evolved apart. Thus, as the French word fils, and the Italian figlio cognates, as they are both ' go back to the Latin filius, son. Similarly, German and English blissfully silly, stupid, foolish, stupid ' cognate, although its meaning is not the same today. In the strict sense only native words cognates and loanwords parallel growths may be, are not. Have you developed in a language of a different origin word cognates such as cellar and cell from Latin cella, they are called " etymological doublets ".

The study of cognates in the form of word equations is an important method of historical- comparative linguistics.