cognates

noun

1. 1

   One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.

2. 2

   One who is related to another on the female side.

3. 3

   One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.

4. 4

   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.