From: Barry Garcia (barry_garcia@csumb.edu)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 06:01:42 EST
romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com writes:
>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.
Montreiano has:
1. rexa
2. reguia
3. reyular
They have similar meanings to the Spanish equivalents, although rexa more
often means "boundary"
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