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Enate vs Cognate - What's the difference?

enate | cognate |

As nouns the difference between enate and cognate

is that enate is a relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family while cognate is one of a number of things allied in origin or nature.

As adjectives the difference between enate and cognate

is that enate is related to someone by female connections while cognate is allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (legal) related on the mother's side.

enate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
  • A great grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.
  • * 2000 , Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland: The Activation of Matriliny Among the Sursurunga , page 86,
  • Similarly, since the wearing of a sawat'' is importantly informed by matrilineal group membership — an enate of the deceased cannot wear a ''sawat — it would be an error to assume that matrilineal group membership is necessarily salient in explaining the behavior of a social actor.
  • Any maternal female relative.
  • Antonyms

    * agnate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Related to someone by female connections.
  • Related on the maternal side of the family.
  • (linguistics) Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
  • Growing out.
  • Coordinate terms

    * agnate (also linguistics )

    Synonyms

    * enatic

    Anagrams

    * ----

    cognate

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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.
  • 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

    * cognateness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • English mother is a cognate of Greek .
    English queen and (quean), Russian , Icelandic kona and Irish bean are all cognates .

    Derived terms

    * false cognate * cognacy

    References

    * (projectlink)

    See also

    * derivation * etymology * etymon * root * false friend * agnate ----