And so the coffee cognates that had emerged from Turkish or Arabic in each European language morphed into still other cognates in native and creole languages throughout South America, Africa, the ...

We are more connected than you think. Seven families of languages across the Eurasian continent, containing tongues as diverse as modern Inuit, Tamil, Japanese, Greek and Hungarian, evolved from a ...

To find the ultraconserved words, linguists looked for cognates—words that have similar meanings and sounds in different languages, like "father" (padre, pere, pater, pitar) -- shared by all ...

The sentences contained cognates, which are words that originate from the same ancient language and have retained a similar meaning and form across languages.

In a word: German loanwords and cognates "'Delicatessen' is a loanword, I think you call them," said my friend Claus. "You know, words you Americans basically stole from us and use as your own." ...

It must be a conspiracy – the way language tries to confuse us, that is. The plot thickens; the conspiracy gets worse. It turns out that there are look-alikes that are even trickier than false friends ...

George Bernard Shaw once described the Americans and British as “two peoples separated by a common language,” underscoring that we are especially prone to misunderstandings when we think we ...

In their search for cognates, Pagel and his team examined some 200 words in 87 Indo-European languages, including those for "water," "two," "to die" and "where." ...