Sentence examples for cognate with from inspiring English sources

It is cognate with Gothic wrikan, to persecute, and Old English wrecan.

This is cognate with her moral inclination to chastity in the face of masculine concupiscence.

Cognate with this is Rembrandt's capacity for conveying unvarnished, unedited pain.

Hussy is a contraction of 13th-century husewif – a word cognate with modern "housewife".

This is cognate with the Old English sloe, a reddish-purple blackthorn berry that gives a sloe gin fizz its color.

It was Egypt's worst sectarian violence in a decade, and the Copts are not even outsiders: their very name is cognate with "Egypt".

I repeat the Homeric word "contend" advisedly, partly because it is cognate with "content": Ulysses became famous right away for its illicit contents and its alleged incomprehensibility.

He made images that are up to the overstuffed chromatic bombast of Richard Strauss and the poignant grace of Johann Strauss, but none reached extremes cognate with Ligeti's.

The German Arbeit suggests effort, hardship and suffering; it is cognate with the Slavonic rabota (from which English derives "robot"), a word meaning corvee, forced or serf labour.

As McMahon points out, "In virtually every Indo-European language, the modern word for happiness is cognate with luck, fortune or fate".

It is from a Common Germanic gronja-, whish is also reflected in Old Norse grænn, Old High German gruoni (but unattested in East Germanic), ultimately from a PIE root * "to grow", and root-cognate with grass and to grow.