Editing German language (section)

==Cognates with English==

A sizable fraction of English vocabulary is [[cognate]] with German words, although the common ancestry may be somewhat obscured by various shifts in phonetics (e.g. the [[High German consonant shift]]), meaning and orthography.

For example:
* the High German consonant shift *p→ff led to such cognates as German ''Schiff'' with English ship.
* Ger. ''Baum'' (meaning "tree") is cognate with the English word beam, as may be seen in the name of trees such as the [[hornbeam]] and the [[whitebeam]].