Cognate

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NOUN

blood relation, blood relative, sib

one related by blood or origin

cognate word

a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language

ADJ

connate

related in nature

having the same ancestral language

akin(p), blood-related, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineal

related by blood

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