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Cognate

/ˈkɒɡneɪt/
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(adj) Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.

The English language is cognate to the German language.
I suppose that even Wolof and Greenlandic may share a cognate.
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A ____ is a word that has the same linguistic derivation.

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