cognates

[Stephen J. Weissman]

Emily Tall asked about a definition of cognates:

A cognate refers to a language or a linguistic form which is historically
derived from the same source as another language/form, e.g. R ozero, Cz jezero,
which both originate from Common Slavic *jezero, and went their separate ways
in R and Cz (to name just a few cognates).  A borrowing, then, would fall
under a different category.

Regards,

Stephen J. Weissman
izzy2po at mvs.oac.ucla.edu
weissman at humnet.ucla.edu