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	False cognate
		A pair of false cognates consists of two words in different languages that appear to be or are sometimes considered cognates when they're really not.
		False cognates are particularly common in core or common vocabulary, as shown by this last example.
		The difference between a false cognate and a false friend is that while a false cognate means roughly the same thing in both languages, a false friend generally means either the opposite (Welsh ie = "yes" vs. Japanese iie = "no") or something completely unrelated.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fa/False_cognate.html (206 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Cognate
		Cognates need not have the same meaning: dish (English) and Tisch ("table", German), or starve (English) and sterben ("die", German), or head (English) and chef ("chief, head", French), serve as examples as to how cognate terms may diverge in meaning as languages develop separately, eventually becoming false friends.
		In some cases, one of the cognate pairs has an ultimate source in another language related to English, while the other one is native, as happened with many loanwords from Old Norse (which was mutually intelligible with Old English) borrowed when the Vikings conquered part of England.
		False cognates are words that are commonly thought to be related (have a common origin) whereas linguistic examination reveals they are unrelated.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Cognate (745 words)

	Cognate
		These words are cognates since they originate in the same root (English borrowing "to pay" from Norman French, and French inheriting venir by the course of language evolution from Vulgar Latin).
		False cognates are words that people often think to be related while they're really not.
		Although perhaps not technically accurate, the term "false cognate" is sometimes used to refer to false friends, pairs of words in different languages that look like they might mean the same thing but don't.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Cognate.html (295 words)

	False Eyelash -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		False cognates, by contrast, are words that, due to strange similarities in appearance and/or meaning, are often erroneously believed to share a common root, although the similarities are due to chance and unrelated word evolutions.
		Such words and letters—both false friends and false cognates—can cause difficulty for students learning a foreign language, particularly one that is related to their native language, because the students are likely to misidentify the words due to Language interference.
		A pair of false cognates consists of two words in different languages that appear to be or are sometimes considered cognates when they are in fact not.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/51/false-eyelash.html (1994 words)

	¡Colorín Colorado! Using cognates to develop comprehension in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cognates are words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation.
		Cognate awareness is the ability to use cognates in a primary language as a tool for understanding a second language.
		As students move up the grade levels, they can be introduced to more sophisticated cognates, and to cognates that have multiple meanings in both languages, although some of those meanings may not overlap.
	www.colorincolorado.org /introduction/cognates.php (654 words)

	Wikinfo \| Cognate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Examples of cognates are the words night (English), Nacht (German), nicht (Scots), noc (Czech), nox (Latin), and nakti- (Sanskrit), all meaning night and all deriving from a common Indo-European origin.
		Cognates may not have the same meaning: dish (English) and Tisch ("table", German), or starve (English) and sterben ("die", German), or head (English) and chef ("chief, head", French) serve as examples as to how cognate terms may diverge in meaning as languages develop separately.
		False friends are similar to false cognates, but differ in that false friends, though they have different meanings, may in fact be cognates.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Cognate (613 words)

	INTRODUCTION
		Learners’ knowledge of the meaning of cognates was elicited by means of an error identification and correction task, in effect a lexical equivalent of the type of grammatical acceptability judgement task that is the staple of much SLA research on the acquisition of syntax.
		Cognates widely known in Japanese were chosen by the researchers with the aid of another Japanese speaker and published loan-word dictionaries and books (since L1 vocabulary knowledge is shown to be a prerequisite for cognate-related transfer to L2 e.g.
		The latter subjects seemed to have reached a ceiling of similar high performance on all cognates, around 71% correct, with the exception of the type that we predicted would be the hardest to acquire, the close false friends, where they show no clear differential with the performance of their counterparts in Japan.
	privatewww.essex.ac.uk /~scholp/emimart2.htm (10361 words)

	False Cognates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cognates (for those who don't know) are words that look/sound similar in Russian and English.
		A false cognate is a word that looks/sounds like an equivilent English word, but actually means something different (and could cause confusion for those of us just starting to learn Russian!).
		There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we learn and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
	www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?TID=4681 (1602 words)

	:: farse :: related - ( false accusation advertisement albacore allegation analogy ...
		b acting as such; appearing to be such, esp. deceptively (a false lining).
		false dawn a transient light in the east before dawn.
		false pretences misrepresentations made with intent to deceive (esp. under false pretences).
	www.spell-dictionary.com /db/farse (142 words)

	ISO 12620 data categories section 03
		Note: False friends are frequently false cognates, i.e., terms that appear to be the same or very similar in etymological origin, but do not have the same meaning in both languages.
		They may also be false calques or false loan translations, i.e., literal translations that are incorrect or misleading, either because a proper equivalent already exists in the target language or because the term elements used in the translation are not themselves equivalent to those used in the source language.
		false cognate: In quality assurance environments (as opposed to accounting), French "contrôler", meaning "to check up on" or "to inspect" is a false cognate to the English term "control", which means "to have power over".
	www.ttt.org /oscar/xlt/webtutorial/datcats03.htm (862 words)

	False friends
		cusp of a graph", the cognate is peak.
		The difference between a false cognate and a false friend is that while a false cognate means roughly the same thing in two languages, a false friend is completely unrelated, and may even, purely by chance, mean the opposite, as
		Introducir: This isn't truly a false cognate, for it can be translated as, among other things, to introduce in the sense of to bring in, to begin, to put, or to place.
	cerezo.pntic.mec.es /~ffras/false_friend.htm (3828 words)

	False cognate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term "false cognate" is sometimes used incorrectly for false friend.
		That is, they appear to be or are sometimes considered cognates when in fact they are not.
		As an example of false cognates, the word for "dog" in the Australian Aboriginal language Mbabaram happens to be dog, although there is no common ancestor or other connection between that language and English (the Mbabaram word evolved regularly from a protolinguistic form *gudaga).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/False_cognate (747 words)

	Yeti - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It is incorrectly titled as the Abominable Snowman by the western press and as a result has been over dramatized as a large primate-like creature supposedly living in the Himalayas.
		The Western name is derived from the Tibetan yeh-teh (transliterated: gYa' dred), "little man-like animal"; it is a false cognate with Old English geottan (or yettin in Modern English), an antiquated word for an orc or troll (see also jotun).
		Most mainstream scientists and experts consider current evidence of the yeti's existence to be weak and better explained as hoax, legend, or misidentification of known species.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Yeti (1778 words)

	Open Brackets
		And I sometimes wonder about the effect of false cognates on people’s relationship to a new language, whether odd associations are created with seemingly innocuous words (curiously enough, once you’ve become bilingual, things are so well-compartmentalised that you tend to notice them less).
		Cognate means sharing the same ancestor; there’s no implication that cognate words should have the same meaning.
		So-called false cognates are almost always true cognates, so it’s a very poor term for ‘faux amis’.
	openbrackets.com /article/786/bad-company (784 words)

	April 2005 - Learn Spanish Today Affiliate Newsletter
		There is a heavy duty term used in the language learning world called "cognate." A cognate is a word that looks similar in English and Spanish and has the same meaning in both languages.
		There are many words in Spanish and English that are cognates and many words that are false cognates.
		A false cognate is a word that looks the same in both languages, sounds similar, but has a different meaning.
	www.learnspanishtoday.com /aff_apr05news.html (609 words)

	Etymology
		Pronouns are also cognate: I~ich; thou~Du; we~wir; she~sie.
		However, language change has eroded many grammatical elements, such as the noun case system, which is greatly simplified in Modern English; and certain elements of vocabulary, much of which is borrowed from French.
		For example, beef is cognate with the modern French bœuf, meaning "steer".
	www.askfactmaster.com /Etymology (559 words)

	languagehat.com: Comment on BOLOGNA.
		"false cognates" are words that on superficial inspection appear to be descended from a common source but in fact are not.
		"false friends" are words that look or sound similar and so give rise to the expectation that they have the same meaning, but don't.
		Insofar as Spanish bizarro and English bizarre have the same source, they may be true cognates but they are nonetheless false friends because their meanings are different.
	www.languagehat.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1370 (822 words)

	Italian game #9 - False cognates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A false cognate is a word that looks or sounds similar to one in another language but actually has a totally different meaning.
		Explain the meaning of the two false cognates given by the previous player and make a sentence with both the Italian words.
		You may indicate false cognates between Italian and any other language not only English.
	www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?TID=10040 (674 words)

	Lektion Nummer Vier (4) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		an -- "onto" or "to" -- preposotion -- cognate to "on" -- but with prepositions, all bets are off as to what they mean -- they may mean the same as their cognates or the opposite.
		Note: Gut/good are cognates; so are their compartive forms: better/besser.
		faelschlich -- falsely -- modern German uses the adjective form as the adverb -- that is, it doesn't add anothing to "falsch" as we do to "false" to make the adverb (the word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb).
	www.cat41.org /Deutsch/004.htm (2124 words)

	My First Chinese Cognate by Asia Blog
		This entry was posted on Monday, March 13th, 2006 at 10:26 pm and is tagged with cognate, borrowed words, place names, and sandwich.
		音 yīn and 言 yán are possibly cognate.
		set, and one of the founding members of the false cognate...
	asia.elliottback.com /archives/2006/03/13/my-first-chinese-cognate (430 words)

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		These shared words, or cognates, (co-natus = co-born), have the same or similar meaning, the same or similar spelling, and the same or similar pronunciation.
		So when they appear in cognates "sound shift" has to be taken into consideration.
		False cognates were probably created to confuse and surely to amuse.
	campus.murraystate.edu /academic/faculty/meg.brown/cognates.htm (468 words)

	whom it may concern:
		One a Professor Constancio NAKUMA, surnamed with homonym or false cognate of the Japanese NAKUMA.
		False cognates such as DONGO in sub-Sahara Africa can send the unscholarly in a bogus direction unnecessarily.
		Different from Dongo which is a dialect of Kresh of Sudan, Dong (Donga) of Nigeria which is in the Chamba group of Adamawa, and Ndo which is Nilo-Saharan.
	home.mindspring.com /~johnqu/bodomo.htm (3794 words)

	False Cognates by Paulo Merson
		A false cognate is a word or phrase that looks the same in both idioms but has a different meaning.
		The list contains false cognates that are common and well known to most Brazilians who studied English, but many items in the list are curious.
		In addition to false cognates, other words in English can be tricky when they are used with a meaning that is different from the usual one.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/pmerson/falseCognates.html (529 words)

	French-English False Cognates - Faux amis
		Cry as a verb means pleurer; as a noun it is un cri.
		Crise is a semi-false cognate; it has several meanings in addition to the English sense of crisis: une crise d'asthme- an asthma attack, une crise de colère - a fit of anger, une crise économique - an economic slump.
		Diligent is an archaic semi-false cognate - it meant diligent at one time and speedy or prompt at another.
	cerezo.pntic.mec.es /~ffras/False_friends_french_english.htm (3124 words)

	Embarrassed or Pregnant - Learn Spanish Culture Newsletter
		A cognate is a word that looks similar in English and Spanish and has the same meaning in both languages.
		This is a very drastic example, but it's important to know that "false cognates" exist so you don't make the same type of mistakes.
		If you choose to learn Spanish with a Spanish course, it will generally teach you many of these false cognates as well as the correct ways to say things in Spanish.
	www.spanishprograms.com /learn_spanish/learn_spanish_17.htm (552 words)

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		Newmark identifies nine aspects of interference: (i) Collocations or lexemes with similar form but different meanings (False cognates fall into this cate-gory').
		Some translators always avoid using a cognate, even when it is a true cognate, for fear of using false cognates.
		But the translator's first job is to translate; only when this is not possible for situational and linguistic reasons (context, connotation, etc.) must he resort to synonyms, then to componential analysis, then to definition, and finally to his last (but not infrequent) recourse, paraphrase.
	www.orgsites.com /ny/mvoiti/Third_Language.doc (1607 words)

	Vocabulary: English vocabulary activities and links for ESL/EFL students
		False Cognates or False Friends (Faux Amis, Falsche Freunde, Falsi Amici, Falsos Amigos) are words that have a common form in two languages but a different meaning.
		They are "false" friends because they appear to have the same meaning in both languages when in reality they do not.
		Discusses false cognates and confusing words for Spanish speakers.
	www.angelfire.com /wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/vocabulary.html (1231 words)

	Fragewörter
		Remember that the sound of this word makes it a false cognate; it does not mean "where."
		Wen (whom) — It is used as the accusative object (a direct object and the object of certain prepositions).
		Remember that the sound of this word makes it a false cognate; it does not mean "when."
	www.acu.edu /academics/cas/fl/german/fragewrter.html (369 words)

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