cognate word

English Thesaurus

1. a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	word,
definition	:	a unit of language that native speakers can identify (noun.communication)

derivation	:	cognate,
definition	:	having the same ancestral language (adj.all)

derivation	:	cognate,
definition	:	having the same ancestral language (adj.all)