Akin vs Cognate - What's the difference?
akin | Cognate |
(of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.
* 1722 , , Moll Flanders , ch. 23:
(often, followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
* 1677 , , The Court of the Gentiles , T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27:
* 1710 , anon., "To the Spectator, &c.," The Spectator , vol. 1, no. 8 (March 9), p. 39:
* 1814 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 44:
* 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 39:
* 1910 , , "Old Well-Well," Success (July):
Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (legal) related on the mother's side.
Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred.
(linguistics) Either descended from the same attested source lexeme of an ancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regular reflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form of a proto-language.
One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
(legal, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
(legal, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
As adjectives the difference between akin and Cognate
is that akin is of the same kin; related by blood while cognate is allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically related on the mother's side.As a noun cognate is
one of a number of things allied in origin or nature.akin
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.
- Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?
- She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.
- Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
- Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
- Something akin to a smile shone on his face.
Usage notes
* This adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.Anagrams
* * * ----Cognate
English
(wikipedia cognate)Adjective
(-)- English mother is cognate to Greek .
- In English, queen is cognate''' to quean, both of which are '''cognate to Russian , Icelandic kona and Irish bean.
- In English, shirt is cognate to skirt, both descended from the Proto-Indo-European root *sker-, meaning "to cut".
Derived terms
* cognatenessNoun
(en noun)- English mother is a cognate of Greek .
- English queen and (quean), Russian , Icelandic kona and Irish bean are all cognates .