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* see [[Indo-European word origins]] | * see [[Indo-European word origins]] | ||
== Cognates == | |||
* "cognate" means "related" or "connected" | * "cognate" means "related" or "connected" | ||
* as an adjective, "cognate" indicates that a word is related to or shifted from another word | * as an adjective, "cognate" indicates that a word is related to or shifted from another word | ||
** as in, "The English word | ** as in, "The English word 'Father' is cognate with the Latin word 'Pater'" | ||
* as a noun cognate means something related, in this case, a word related to another word | |||
** as in, "The English word 'Father is a cognate to the Latin word 'Pater'" | |||
=== "P" to "F" sound === | === "P" to "F" sound === | ||