No, most Spanish words are different than English. However, those words that look alike are called cognates. This is because English and Spanish both originated from Indo-European languages and therefore share similar vocabulary.

About 80 percent of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed, mainly from Latin. Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots. In the vocabulary of the sciences and technology, the figure rises to over 90 percent.

Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. English is a Germanic language, with a grammar and a core vocabulary inherited from Proto-Germanic. The influence of Latin in English, therefore, is primarily lexical in nature, being confined mainly to words derived from Latin roots.

As a result, the Germanic tribes adopted many Latin words for common objects, food, trade, and military practices into their vocabulary. These words were later brought to Britain through migration and incorporated into the English language.

In a sense, English and Spanish are cousins, as they have a common ancestor, known as Indo-European. And sometimes, English and Spanish can seem even closer than cousins, because English has adopted many words from French, a sister language to Spanish.

English is more difficult. Learning Spanish would be much easier for a native speaker of another Romance language, and maybe even Slavic people. However, native speakers of Germanic languages might find Spanish a bit more distant than English, since English is, after all, a Germanic language.

The easiest Spanish cognates to recognize are exactly the same in English. However, the Spanish pronunciation of the word is usually slightly different than what you’re used to. Some examples are: metro, hospital, idea, escape, lava, visa, sociable, inevitable, funeral, original, cereal, horrible, and motor.

There are three types of cognates that are relatively easy to recognize:

• Words that are spelled exactly the same.
• Words that are spelled slightly differently.
• Words that are spelled differently but sound similar.

hi, and goodbye are both true cognates for hi and bye in English. father and mother are kind of false cognates as they look like you are talking about a turkey or something not saying mom and dad.

Not to be confused with false friends, false cognates are words that sound and look similar but do not come from a common root. For example, the English “much” and the Spanish “mucho” are phonetically and semantically similar but came from completely different Proto-Indo-European roots. “We are not false friends!”

Cognates are words that have a common origin (source). They may happen in a language or in a group of languages. Example One: ‘composite’, ‘composition’ and ‘compost’ are cognates in the English language, derived from the same root in Latin ‘componere’ meaning ‘to put together’.

1 a long curved fruit that grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe. become extremely angry or excited : she went bananas when I said I was going to leave the job. …

noun. the quality or state of being convincing or persuasive: The cogency of the argument was irrefutable.

Similar to the concept of soundness for deductive arguments, a strong inductive argument with true premises is termed cogent. To say an argument is cogent is to say it is good, believable; there is good evidence that the conclusion is true. A weak argument cannot be cogent, nor can a strong one with a false premise(s).

A cogent argument is by definition non-deductive, which means that the premises are intended to establish probable (but not conclusive) support for the conclusion. Furthermore, a cogent argument is strong, so the premises, if they were true, would succeed in providing probable support for the conclusion.

The state or quality of being sound. soundness(Noun) The result or product of being sound. soundness(Noun) The property (of an argument) of not only being valid, but also of having true premises.

the greenness of growing vegetation

1 the ability to withstand force or stress without being distorted, dislodged, or damaged. the car manufacturer tested the soundness of the new model in various types of collisions.

A deductive argument is sound if and only if it is both valid, and all of its premises are actually true. Otherwise, a deductive argument is unsound. In effect, an argument is valid if the truth of the premises logically guarantees the truth of the conclusion.