Cognate describes a relationship between words found in different languages that developed from the same earlier source. Cognate words often resemble one another in sound, spelling, or meaning because they preserve features inherited from a shared linguistic ancestor. Identifying cognates helps explain how languages are related and how vocabulary changes over time. The term does not apply to loanwords taken directly from another language, but to words that developed independently from a common origin through historical change.
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- Mutie, Jeremiah, The Identity of the Διψυχος in the Shepherd of Hermas
- McNamara, Martin, Targum Neofiti 1 & Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, Exodus
- van Henten, Jan Willem and Silvia Castelliv, "Massah and Meribah Re-interpreted: Biblical Accounts, Judith, and Josephus" in De Troyer, Kristin, et al. (eds.) The Early Reception of the Torah
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