İngiliz dili Alman diline soydaştır.
- The English language is cognate to the German language.
Bufalo, öküzle akrabadır.
- A buffalo is akin to an ox.
English queen and quean, Russian жена (žená), Icelandic kona and Irish bean are all cognates.
In English, shirt is cognate to skirt, both descended from the Proto-Indo-European word *sker-, meaning to cut.