Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "False cognates are pairs of words in the same or different languages that are similar in form and meaning, so are taken to be cognates, but in fact have different roots. This is different from a false friend, where two words in different languages or dialects look similar, but have different meanings. While some false friends are also false cognates, many are genuine cognates. (For example, English pretend and French pretendre are false friends, but not false cognates, as they have the same origin.) Even though false cognates lack a common root, there may still be an indirect connection between them (for example through phono-semantic matching or folk etymology)."@en }
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- False_cognate abstract "False cognates are pairs of words in the same or different languages that are similar in form and meaning, so are taken to be cognates, but in fact have different roots. This is different from a false friend, where two words in different languages or dialects look similar, but have different meanings. While some false friends are also false cognates, many are genuine cognates. (For example, English pretend and French pretendre are false friends, but not false cognates, as they have the same origin.) Even though false cognates lack a common root, there may still be an indirect connection between them (for example through phono-semantic matching or folk etymology).".