A person who shares descent with Ego from a common ancestor through any combination of male or female links, for example: father's mother's brother (FaMoBr).
Also called a "consanguine."
Comment:In linguistics, a cognate is a word or morpheme in one language that shares an ancestral form with a word or morpheme in another language. For example, English "liberty" and French "liberté" are cognates. Two words in the same language that share a cognate relationship with a parent term in another language may also be described as cognates. For example, English "senator" and "senile" are cognates.
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