From: Jan van Steenbergen (ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 04:24:40 EST
--- John Cowan skrzypszy:
> 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.
Thank you, very nice indeed.
Wenedyk has:
rzegl\a "rule; also: line (of text)"
rzegl\arz "regular (frequent)"
regular "regular (not irregular)"
Perhaps we should start a "triplet of the week". ;)
Jan
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