Associations to the word «Cognatic»

Wiktionary

COGNATIC, adjective. Of or relating to a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor or ancestress through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where relations are traced through both father and mother.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky