cognation

The term he used was obscure, probably archaic, and the man had to guess its meaning from context and cognation.

Brainard (1970) allowed for chance cognation and drift effects was introduced by Gleason (1959).

Agnation and cognation differ in that the former refers to a relation through someone male and the latter to a relation through either gender.

Another common theory that is sometimes recognized is that people fear death because they do not know what happens afterwards.Though some people have a religion or a preconceived cognation of what will happen after death.

Mitchell and Piper (unpublished paper) find that Meriam Mìr is indeed a Trans-Fly Papuan language with 78% cognation with its sister languages, the remaining vocabulary being mainly of Australian origin.

Kalaw Lagaw Ya has only 6% cognation with its closest Australian neighbour, Urradhi, with a further 5% "common" vocabulary [loans of various origins]) - and about 40% common vocabulary with its Papuan neighbour, Meriam Mìr (Mitchell 2012).