cognatic
- adjective
- /kəˈnætɪk/
- Specialized
- In a cognatic society, both the mother's and father's lineage play a significant role in inheritance.
- cognatic kin
Examples
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Inheritance in the tribe is traced through a cognatic system, allowing for equal recognition of both parental lines.
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The family's wealth is shared among all descendants in a cognatic manner, fostering unity between maternal and paternal relatives.
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Unfortunately, the officers misinterpreted Managalase land tenure and clan membership as patrilineal, when in fact it was cognatic.
Academic text (1991) -
The changes in land rights from cognatic to patrilineal, and the consequent alteration in the identity of women, effectively halved networks of political influence.
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While marriages ideally increased an agan's paths to other groups, unions within a network of cognatic kin divided relatives into opposing sets of affines.
Academic text (1991) -
What is called couvade is part of a public means of confirming or creating classificatory relations, of rearranging the cognatic universe into the idiom of substances, objects, and behaviors.
Academic text (2005) -
The first, referred to as vuam sahas (the old way), was essentially cognatic; the second, vuam mai'akin (the new way), is a patrilineal system which, according to the villagers, had been introduced by the government.
Academic text (1991) -
This meant that, in comparison with their mothers and grandmothers, DFs lacked the strong family networks produced and consolidated—even with cognatic kin—by marriage and childbirth.
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The Managalase, whose marriages are monogamous, extended their political alliances by arranging the marriages of their cognatic kin (McKellin 1984, n.d.).
Academic text (1991)
Surface Forms
Morphology
cognatic = cognate (semi-transparent) = cognat + ic
Formed from the adjective 'cognate' plus the productive suffix '-ic', but the kinship-specific meaning is technical and may not be fully inferable by an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Cognatic comes from the Latin cognatus, built from co- 'with' and natus 'born', so it originally meant 'born together'. So cognatic describes family ties that are traced through both the mother's and the father's side.