| false cognate | межъязыковой омоним (1. A word which is similar in meaning to another word, and which appears to also be cognate (etymologically related) to it, but which is in fact unrelated. 2. A word that appears similar in form to another word, but is both unrelated in its meaning and of unrelated origin. 3. (proscribed) A false friend, a word that appears to have the same meaning as a given word, but that does not (without regard to whether or not the two terms are cognate).  wiktionary.org Alexander Demidov) |
