• false cognate
• false cognates

false cognate (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

• A word which is similar in meaning to another word, and which appears to also be cognate (etymologically related) to it, but which is in fact unrelated.
• A word that appears similar in form to another word, but is both unrelated in its meaning and of unrelated origin.
• (lb, en, proscribed) A ''false friend'', a word that appears to have the same meaning as a given word, but that does not (without regard to whether or not the two terms are cognate).