cognate
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(s) related in nature
- connate qualities
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(s) having the same ancestral language
- cognate languages
- (s) related by blood blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin, akin,
Nouns
- (n) one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another blood relation, blood relative, sib,
- (n) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language cognate word,