English Explanatory Dictionary

sister language

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A cognate language; a language that is related to another by virtue of descending from a common ancestral language.

Word forms

sister language sister languages

Etymology

Perhaps a calque of German Schwestersprache.

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