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Words that have a common etymological origin.
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Words cognate with race (in the sense of a speed competition)
Pfeifer writes:
rasen Vb. ‘wütend sein, toben, ungestüm laufen, schnell fahren’,
ahd. girāsēn (?, 9. Jh.),
mhd. (selten, vorwiegend md.) rāsen ‘toll sein, toben’,
mnd. mnl. rāsen, nl. razen ‘toll sei …
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Are German Rahmen and English frame cognates, and if so, where does the f come from/how did ...
In this case “frame” and “Rahmen” are cognates.
See the “Etymologie” section here: https://www.dwds.de/wb/Rahmen …
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Is thorn cognate with Bactrian sho?
The Bactrian letter <ϸ> is for /ʃ/, not /θ/. It is possible that it originated in the word χϸονο "calendar year", which is probably borrowed from Greek χρόνος. In this case, <ϸ> could have started out …
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Is the Indian female name "Sati" the same as the self-immolating Hindu goddess?
In India it is commonplace to give children the name of a god or a goddess. The answer to your question is yes.
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Are Hindi "Bigul" (बिगुल) and English "Bugle" cognates?
"Bigul" is not in Turner's Comparative Dictionary, nor in Platts' Dictionary of Classical Urdu/Hindi. It is evidently a borrowing from English, with simplification of the /ju/ in the first syllable to …
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What are cognates of "fuck" in other Indo-European languages?
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
Probably cognate with Dutch fokken to mock (15th cent.), to strike
(1591), to fool, gull (1623), to beget children (1637), to have sexual
intercourse with ( …
27
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Are there languages in which "coffee" is not a cognate of a root containing k/q and f/h/w?
First of all I would like to say that these words are not cognates; they are loanwords.
The coffee plant is indigenous in the highlands of Ethiopia. …
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German long "o" vs. "au". Is there a rule?
“Rot” and “tot” have a long ō in Old High German, but “laufen” and “kaufen” have the diphthong ou in OHG. ō and ou merge in some languages, in others they go their separate ways.
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How can I check whether 'question' in English, and 'xahesh' in Persian are cognates?
No non-Iranian cognates are known.
The etymology of Latin quaero, quaestio etc. is debated, but none of the proposed suggestions links up with the cited Iranian root. …
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Is Latin "ulula" cognate with hindi उल्लू ("ullu")?
Skt ulūka-, Latin ulula, Gothic ūla, English owl, and others, are Indo-European cognates. …