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The term "cognate" finds varied application in literary and scholarly works. In grammatical analyses, it often designates a class of objects that share an inherent relation with their verbs, as seen in the discussion of the "cognate object" in certain syntactical constructions [1], [2], [3]. In linguistic and etymological contexts, "cognate" describes words that derive from a common ancestral root—linking languages through shared vocabulary, such as associations between Latin, Greek, and other tongues [4], [5], [6]. Beyond grammar and lexicography, the adjective extends metaphorically to denote allied or corresponding ideas, bridging concepts across disciplines and literary themes [7], [8]. This multifarious use underscores the word’s capacity to illustrate both structural relationships in language and broader, interconnected cultural and intellectual associations.
  1. It , 56 ; impersonal, 58 ; expletive, 58 , 135 , 161 , 175 f.; cognate object, 58 . /I
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  2. A noun in this construction is called the cognate object of the verb and is in the objective case.
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  3. In the first sentence, the cognate object ( daggers ) modifies the predicate verb ( looked ) as the adverb angrily would do.
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  4. The name, meaning the “Shining One,” is cognate to the Latin Aurora and the Greek Ēōs .
    — from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
  5. French gets over the difficulty by inserting a vowel between the two consonants, e.g., canif is a Germanic word cognate with Eng. knife .
    — from The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
  6. The word is derived from the Old German aha, cognate to the Latin aqua, water (cf.
    — from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
  7. Had this latter or any cognate phenomenon declared itself in any member of his family?
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  8. What to us the uninterrupted current of their bloods, if our own did not answer within us to a cognate and correspondent elevation?
    — from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

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