cognation

American  

[kog-ney-shuhn] / kɒgˈneɪ ʃən /

noun

1. cognate relationship.

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Etymology

Origin of cognation

1350–1400; Middle English cognacioun (< Anglo-French, Old French ) < Latin cognātiōn- (stem of cognātiō ) kinship, equivalent to cognāt ( us ) cognate + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

Grammatic similarities are not supposed to furnish evidence of cognation, but to be phenomena, in part relating to stage of culture and in part adventitious.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley

Manloius on "He who runs may read," 374. —— on letters of Horning, 398. —— on America and Tartary, 405. —— on cognation of the Jews and Lacadaemonians, 577.

From Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. by Various

Perhaps the latter infers how close the cognation of the creative and the critical faculty.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

The evidence of cognation is derived exclusively from the vocabulary.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley

Dr. John Pye Smith says that 'the confusion of language was probably only to a certain point, not destroying cognation.'

From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles