Cognation

It would be sounded high that he debased human nature, which has a "cognation," so the reverend and learned Doctor Cudworth calls it, with the divine; that the soul of man, immaterial and immortal by its nature, was made to contemplate higher and nobler objects than this sensible world, and even than itself, since it was made to contemplate God and to be united to Him. ❋ Henry St. John Bolingbroke (1714)

I will not be myself nor have cognation of what I truly am, unless I am in the woods. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Following established procedures, wherever it is possible to do so, the languages having the highest rates of cognation with each other are positioned next to each other along the diagonal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The second was the relative coherency of ranges of cognation held by pairs or groups of languages relative to those pairs and groups more distantly related to them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

First, there is rather clear evidence of a straightforward dialect divergence in the tight range of cognation shared among the Central-East Ruvu subgroup — consisting of three divisions, Kami, the Southeast Ruvu cluster of Kutu and Zalamo, and Kwere — at 84.5% – 88.5%. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The higher the shared cognation between particular languages is, the closer their relationship. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The usual pattern in instances like this one is for the percentages of cognation between the geographically most distant members of the chain to be those that most closely reflect the true time depth within the chain. ❋ Unknown (2008)

With this rate of cognation it is likely that the proto-West Ruvu language began diverging into Vidunda-Sagala and Gogo as long ago as the early part of the second millennium, probably by around the eleventh or twelfth century CE. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Their shared cognation range of 74% – 78.5% is distinctly higher than their scores with any outside language group. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This particular percentage pattern, of two distinct cognation ranges, is typical when a proto-language diverges into a chain of daughter communities. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Applying these estimates to the shared cognation rates established in table 1, which were used to construct the dendrogram in figure 1, provides a way to estimate the probable approximate timing of proto-Ruvu divergence into its descendant languages. ❋ Unknown (2008)

By considering both of these features the established groups are not supported solely by rates of cognation based on their individual shared retention rates with another language; they are corroborated by being of consistently similar distance of relationship to other subgroups of languages within the wider Ruvu group. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Doe's range with Central-East Ruvu runs 81% – 83.5%, with a particularly high figure of 89.5% cognation with Kwere. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The first was the highest rates of cognation between individual pairs of languages. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Kagulu's range of cognation with the East Ruvu languages runs from 69% to 75%, while it shares a range of 61% – 74% with West Ruvu languages. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They share a distinctly high 93% cognation rate with each other, and in turn share a cognation range of 73.5% – 89.5% with the rest of the East Ruvu group. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They are meant to be suggestive of periods of suspected heavy contact that lead to skewed cognation rates after the proto-language began to diverge, but they do not attempt to quantify the influence of those relationships. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lugulu and Doe's cognation with each other, however, falls significantly lower, at 73.5%. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So instead of representing a potential dilemma, skewed cognation rates are either statistical outliers or they are rates skewed by word borrowings that spread from one language to another at an early historical point, before sound changes that would have revealed them as borrowings took place. ❋ Unknown (2008)

here is what I cognate while [listening] to [rihanna]. ❋ Addake (2019)

These words are [Cognates] : English:telephone Spanish:telé[fono] They share the same root: [phon],which means "sound" or "voice" ❋ SJ3112 (2018)

“[Plastic BAG]” it’s also a False Cognate. It means different things in different [Urban] [Languages]. ❋ ThatMauricio (2019)