Literary notes about cognate (AI summary)
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.
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Had this latter or any cognate phenomenon declared itself in any member of his family?
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - 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