cognacy (可数 和 不可数,复数 cognacies)
- (语言学) 同源词间的关系;另一种语言共享相同祖源用词的情况。
2000, Bernd Heine & Derek Nurse, African Languages: An Introduction, →ISBN,页号 262:First, in depending on vocabulary, as opposed to morphology or grammar, one runs the risk of assuming cognacy between similar words when the real explanation is borrowing.- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- (语言学) 两种语言共享同源词的程度,通常以百分比表示。
1988, Monday B. Abasiattai, Expanding frontiers of African history: the inter-disciplinary methodology[1], →ISBN,页号 255:In Table 13.1 are given the percentages for the degrees of cognacy between pairs of languages in the Upper Cross group.- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)