LING 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grimm'S Law, Red Blood Cell, Podiatry
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Latin co + gnatus born together" a) genetically alike; b) related blood. Cognates are words that are historically related. They have descended from the same source word in the parent language. Many words borrowed from latin and greek are cognates with native english words: Systematic consonant correspondences among english, latin, and greek cognates. Indo-european is considered to have three voiceless stops: p, t, k which became voiceless fricatives. Ie k h century hundred cardiac cordial heart. Indo-european is considered to have three voiced stops: b, d, g which became voiceless stops. Indo-european is considered to have three voiced aspirated consonants (stops) (consonants terminating with breath of air): bh, dh, gh which became voiced non-aspirated consonants (stops) Verbal barber erythrocyte (b if was preceded by [r] or [u]) ruby thesis fact forest (f in other cases) word beard red do door.