Russian word for "cognate"

[Ernest Scatton]

Regarding words in linguistics with rather different meanings:

I suppose "language" is one as wellHere is something from Noam
Chomsky, Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind, which struck
me as interesting in this regard: "In fact it [language, e.s.]
is not one of the things in the real world; that is, it isn't a thing
out there. Whatever it is, it's some sort of complex derived notion,
maybe no notion: In fact, it doesn't seem to be a linguistic notion,
at least not linguistically definable." (p. 26)

Ernie Scatton