#Cognates

[stunning-mess]

my bestfriend (who doesnt know kotlc) is another breed bro

[crumpetsandbiscuits]

Cognates

Hello, my name is Crumpet, and I am choosing to be a Cognate Therapist! TM. Anyway, it’s like a couples councilor but worse. If anyone wants to apply for this firm, or get cognate therapy, please dm

[yvanspijk]

Hidden cognates

Shirt has the same origin as German Schürze and Dutch schort, which mean 'apron'. These words all stem from Germanic *skurtijōn, which meant 'short piece of clothing'. Their different forms and meanings hide their relatedness. Here are more of these hidden cognates.

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[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

Finding out I’m related to a Dutch linguist, call that a clognate

[arcturus-ohala]

I re-read Stellarlune and learned two things, 1. It's not called Stellarune, it's Stellarlune, and 2.

Magnate Leto is the dude that says being cognates is like being married.

[molkolsdal]

white

safed: Persian, Urdu/Hindi, Tajik

shofed: Bengali

saphed: Marathi

sapheda: Odia

safaid: Punjabi

spin: Pashto

spî: Northern and Central Kurdish

spîd: Southern Kurdish

išpéru: Khowar

séta: Javanese (literary)

śvet: Hindi, Gujarati

śvēta: Kannada

[toastedpotatoes]

difference between false cognates and false friends:

cognates are words that share an etymological origin (e.g. father in english and père in french are both descended from proto-indo-european *ph₂tḗr)

false cognates are words that don’t share an origin despite looking like they do (e.g. much in english vs mucho in spanish)

false cognates can mean the same thing!

false friends are words that don’t mean the same thing despite looking similar (e.g. gift in english means present while Gift in german means poison)

false friends can be cognates!

[corvidconventicle]

English - Spanish

acid - ácido avid - ávido fluid - fluido liquid - líquido lucid - lúcido placid - plácido rapid - rápido solid - sólido splendid - espléndido timid - tímido valid - válido vivid - vívido

[aardappel-van-mijn-oog]

So I have two a priori conlangs that I'm working on right now, they're two related languages spoken by arctic hunter-gatherers on a small peninsular subcontinent in the conworld I'm making.

Anyway, I absolutely love how weird the cognates ended up being, like they're so fun. If I have a word in the protolanguage I have literally no clue whether it's gonna turn out super similar or nothing alike in the two daughter languages. Okay examples, let's take the word for 'berry'. Protolanguage *nhathan'ngha [nˤaˈtˤan.ŋˤa] Léna: nátángá [ná.tá.ŋá] Kkeṛhaqom: naṭannga [nä.ʈ͡ʂäŋ.ŋä]

Like okay that's relatively similar, fair enough. How about the word for 'wind'?

Protolanguage *ğharwxodh [ˈɣˤarʷ.xodˤ] Léna: árwxǝt [áɾʷ.xǝt] Kkeṛhaqom: harxuṭ [ˈhär.xʊʈ͡ʂ]

Fair enough, that's not too bad. Hmm... how about the word for 'a hunter'?

Protolanguage *ałhasocw [aˈʎˤa.socʷ] Léna: ǝlyásotw [ǝ.ʎá.sotʷ] Kkeṛhaqom: aghass [ˈä.ɣäsː]

PARDON ME SIR?

[joellalovestoread]

”but we’re cognatesssss”

have a feeling fitzy won’t be pulling that one too often anymore since what happened in Stellarlune 😶

[thesfromhms]

@innereverblaze is one of my favorite people here. Not only were they one of my first followers, but they've actively engaged in my ideas and liked them. Oh, and they also offered to be my cognate. They are my Cognate and I love them

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Just read the word "cognate" and felt my life get a little brighter

[black--butterflies]

Me and my younger sister got matching rings and now she thinks we are cognates.

Are all 10 year olds this adorable?

[unaside]

Do you have a cognate

i would like to say that i do, but the only person i would consider my cognate doesn’t even know what one is 😔😔 pray for me yall 🙏

[skimberwood04]

Do you think if Biana manifest as a telepath would she become Cognates with Sophie?

[ceezedby]

A Father-Daughter Swearing Lesson | “The F-Word” | The New Yorker