A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
or adj. Any one of two or more words in genetically related languages which are descended from a single common ancestor in the common ancestral language.
For example, English foot and German Fuss ‘foot’ are cognate, both being derived from Proto-Germanic *fōt-, and both are cognate with Spanish pie, French pied and Ancient Greek pous, all being ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *ped-.
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