Sami/Finnic correspondences

Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Rua

I used "cognate" precisely because I didn't want to commit to anything either way. It means a word is from the same common origin, but that doesn't mean Finnic can't be that origin. I realise this may not be how the term is commonly understood, but how else do you say "from the same source" if not "cognate"?

CodeCat23:51, 8 November 2014

I believe the term for "same origin as this word, possibly via descent from it" is "akin to". On the Finnic side this doesn't work either though, as descendants do not belong in the etymology section (much like how we do not claim that Latin hora is "cognate to" English hour.)

Tropylium (talk)23:59, 8 November 2014