Doublets in English

Guest   Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:27 pm GMT
This means words that are inherited or borrowed from two different sources that derive from the same root. Like

Frail from Old French and Fragile from Latin

Or

Shirt from Old English and Skirt from Old Norse.

Do you have any more examples of doublets in English?
Lazar   Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:31 pm GMT
How about a triplet? :)

hospital (from Latin), hostel (from Old French), hotel (from Modern French)

Another triplet is:

parson (from Old French), person (from Old French), persona (from Latin)
Lazar   Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:00 am GMT
A doublet:

common (from Old French), commune (from Latin)
guest   Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:23 pm GMT
shed shade shadow
whole hale hail

ward warden guard/guardian
yard garden [Kinder]garten gardenia gird girth
blae blue
yield gild gelt

shell shale scale
shoal school(of fish) shallow

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