descendant
learned borrowing
cognate
cognate word
semi-learned borrowing
cognacy
etymon
neoclassical compound
homolog
false friend
heteroclite
ancestor
native tongue
figure of speech
partial false friend
lingually
linguistic landscape
hybrid
mother tongue
lingual
vocable
collateral form
old
heterograph
daughter language
Oïl language
reborrowing
derivative
calque
pseudolanguage
syntax language
gainword
plural
root
loanword
riddle
variant
heritage language
book word
paronym
tonal language
xenolect
vocab
tone language
intralinguistic
superdialect
calque formation
false cognate
etymological
phylum
glottochronology
contamination
loan translation
phono-semantic matching
polynym
morphophonemics
homonym
language family
lexicon
affix
homophony
parent language
loanshift
linguistic
alienism
colanguage
pseudo-loan
equivocal
naturalize
heteroglot
glossonym
Creole
foreign language
folk etymology
family
untranslatability
etymologize
autoglossonym
tongue
vehicular
denominative
notional opposite
West Coast Bajau
tonguely
faux ami
linguonym
Kulturwort
no changer
lexical
wordly
razzmatazz

English words for 'A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.'

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