From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 00:24:27 EST
A fairly nice example of a Spanish triplet, from Latin REGULA 'rule':
1. reja (popular/inherited) 'fence, barrier'
2. regla (semi-learned/inherited-remodeled) 'rule'
3. regular (learned/borrowed) 'regular'
Technically the third member is from Latin REGULARIS.
Kudos to Dorothea Salo for this example.
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