Difference between Consanguineal and Cognate

What is the difference between Consanguineal and Cognate?

Consanguineal as an adjective is related by bloodline; consanguineous. while Cognate as an adjective is either descended from the same attested source lexeme of ancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regular reflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form of proto-language.

Consanguineal

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Related by bloodline; consanguineous.

Cognate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Either descended from the same attested source lexeme of ancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regular reflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form of proto-language.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.

We hope you now know whether to use Consanguineal or Cognate in your sentence.

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