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Viking Ship Museum in Denmark announces the discov...
They have the same etymological root, from a Proto-Germanic word for a lump, which is the tooth (cog) on a cogwheel, or the round bulky lump of a cog ship.
twic
18 days ago
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So they're cognates.
pimlottc
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Cog mates, even
WJW
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Nice
card_zero
18 days ago
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Godammit
imoverclocked
18 days ago
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No... Cog, damnit.
jonahx
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But "cognate" is not.
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