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Cognates for…Everything Else

This last group is a junk drawer for everything else that didn’t really fit into a category. That includes terms like bikini, menu, and shampoo as well as two places - bazaar, veranda(h). This group is a big random. Among these, the most cognates could be found with shampoo. That being said, all of these terms except bikini had relatively higher numbers of languages where, within a certain a degree of certainty, they did not have cognate terms. shampoo veranda bazaar menu Languages with Cognate Terms 104 98 85 80 Languages Likely without Cognates 12 25 11 15 0.908 0.808 0.880 0.842 The word bikini had more than 70 cognates. It might have more but more research is needed. Language Family shampoo veranda bazaar menu Spanish Indo-European el champú la veranda el bazar el menú French Indo-European le shampooing la véranda la varangue le bazar le menu,   la carte Portuguese Indo-European o champô a veranda o bazar o menu, o cardápio Catalan Indo-European xampú veranda basar menú Romania...