Re: Roots of English language

From: Anti-imperialist (ai_at_anti-imperialist.net)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:37:38 -0700

"Ex F. May" wrote:
>
> Just musing, here, but I'd think that if English borrows a Spanish word,
> soy, "rodeo", the Spanish and English words are definitely not cognates.

Right.

> However, if English borrows a word from French that is a cognate to a
> Spanish word -- animal and animal, say, then the words remain cognate even
> after the French word enters English.

Agree.
>
> Question. Take yo and ego. Are they cognates? Io and yo (Italian and
> Spanish) definitely are, but is a word -descended- from a word cognate to it
> or not?

Think so....they are all related. Has to do with relatedness. 

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