تويت
What are cognates
According to our discussion of family relationships, we find out that the is connection between different languages
Therefore, within groups of related languages, we often can find close similarities in particular sets of terms
A cognate of a word in one language (e.g English) is a word in another language (e.g German) which has a similar form and is, or was used with a similar meaning
Thus, the English forms mother, father and friend are cognates of the German forms matter, vater and freund
Now, we will propose a question
What woud the basis of these cognate sets make us propose
They make us propose that such sets in modern English and German probably have common ancestor