English to Icelandic Meaning of cognate - cognate

Cognate :

cognate

adjective

svipað

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Definitions of cognate in English

Noun(1) one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another(2) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
Adjective(1) related in nature(2) having the same ancestral language(3) related by blood

Examples of cognate in English

(1) Certainly, the Golden Rule extolled in the book - ├ö├ç├┐what you do not want done to yourself, do not do unto others├ö├ç├û - is cognate with the notions of reciprocity and fair-mindedness.(2) ├ö├ç├┐Saxon├ö├ç├û is cognate with stranger in most Celtic languages, while ├ö├ç├┐Welsh├ö├ç├û means foreigner in old Saxon.(3) The Greek ├ö├ç├┐graphein├ö├ç├û (to write) and ├ö├ç├┐grate├ö├ç├û, ├ö├ç├┐grind├ö├ç├û and even ├ö├ç├┐scratch├ö├ç├û are probably cognate etymologically.(4) Globally, this will put 17 million telephone repairmen, and another 48 million people who work in cognate branches of the phone industry, out of work.(5) It is cognate with the maxim no doubt misleadingly summarised as ├ö├ç├┐all crime is local├ö├ç├û.(6) The word neshama is a cognate of nesheema, which means literally ├ö├ç├┐breath.├ö├ç├û(7) There is a major problem with some views concerning new developments in anthropology and cognate disciplines.(8) English mother and German Mutter are cognate words.(9) To Johnny the two missing screws seemed cognate with the sonographer's lack of manners and unshaven cheeks.(10) The pace of scientific discovery is driven by technical advances in experimentation, the invention of new techniques, and the application of ideas imported from cognate disciplines.(11) The linguist had Maori friends and learned their language which helped him acquire fluency in the cognate language of Tikopia in his later fieldwork.(12) His book deals with memes and other cognate subjects less frivolously and with much more academic rigour than I can muster.(13) There is an interesting but short section on the local adaptive value of cultural rules including dialects and cognate words.(14) In Descartes's use, ├ö├ç├┐deduction├ö├ç├û and cognate expressions seem to describe an extended passage in thought from one consideration to another without doubt or unclarity setting in.(15) In reflecting on the roles and responsibilities of an editor of a learned journal, I am reminded of the analogies made by a fellow editor of a cognate research journal.(16) The issue of organisational performance, embedded within the processes of organisational change and adaptation, has led to a rich research literature in a number of cognate disciplines.

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Synonyms

Adjective

2. related ::

skyld

3. connected ::

tengdur

4. allied ::

Allied

5. linked ::

tengd

6. similar ::

svipað

7. like ::

eins

8. alike ::

eins

9. akin ::

svipað

10. kindred ::

ættfólks

11. comparable ::

sambærilegt

12. parallel ::

samsíða

13. corresponding ::

samsvarandi

14. analogous ::

hliðstætt

Noun

15. blood relative ::

blóð ættingja

16. sib ::

Sib

17. blood relation ::

blóð Tengsl

Antonyms

1. different ::

mismunandi

2. dissimilar ::

ólíkra

3. diverse ::

fjölbreytt

4. unlike ::

ólíkt

Different Forms

cognate, cognates

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