cognates
Stephen J. Weissman
IZZY2PO at MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU
Wed Mar 8 18:48:00 UTC 1995
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
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