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

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

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