Example sentences for: cognates

How can you use “cognates” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Etymologies in the OED, The Random House Unabridged , and Kluge's Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache have cognates of balagan/balcony popping up in Slovene ( blazina ), Greek, and most significantly in Lithuanian ( balǽienas ), purportedly the most conservative of the Indo-European languages.

  • Then, too, the OED does not always transliterate foreign scripts, which might put those who cannot read Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, Thai, etc., at a disadvantage when examining cognates or loanwords.

  • As a consequence of all this deadwood, we are denied useful lexicographical information, like the fact that chapter and capital are cognates.

  • He finds no Indo-European cognates (of Latin futuo he notes It is a strange coincidence that Latin futuo is also an f word).

  • As you know, I never myself use that word (or its cognates) concerning collective memory.


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