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Also same root as "cognition". Similar in Spanish, "reconocer" and "conocer" (which also means "to meet", i.e. to know for the first time).
by ggambetta 8y ago
Also same root as "cognition". Similar in Spanish, "reconocer" and "conocer" (which also means "to meet", i.e. to know for the first time).
- jacobolus 8y agoAccording to Wiktionary the early Latin word was gnōscere. Old English had cnawan and cunnan. Besides “know”, etc., modern English words “can”, “cunning”, “canny”, etc. also come from this root.