释义
[ kog-ney -shuh n ] SHOW IPA
/ kɒgˈneɪ ʃən / PHONETIC RESPELLING
Origin of cognation 1350–1400; Middle English cognacioun (<Anglo-French, Old French ) <Latin cognātiōn- (stem of cognātiō ) kinship, equivalent to cognāt (us ) cognate + -iōn- -ion
Words nearby cognation cogitative, cogito, ergo sum, cognac, cognate, cognate object, cognation , Cognex, cognisant, cognition, cognitive, cognitive behavioral therapy
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Example sentences from the Web for cognation Neither coincidences nor borrowed material, however, can be properly regarded as evidence of cognation .
Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico | John Wesley Powell
Perhaps the latter infers how close the cognation of the creative and the critical faculty.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 | Various
The evidence of cognation is derived exclusively from the vocabulary.
Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico | John Wesley Powell
Sir H. Maine says that the prtors early laid hold on cognation as the natural form of kinship.
Tradition | John Francis Arundell
Again, deportation to an island, which entails minor or intermediate loss of status, destroys rights by cognation .
The Institutes of Justinian | Caesar Flavius Justinian
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