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I don't think the triplets "ci", "ca", "cu" and "sta", "stay", "staw" are too close to their mates within each group. They are the sort of words that people naturally stress precisely to make quite clear which they mean; and there is some mnemonic value in having them follow a pattern. We have similar kinds of patterns in the Romance languages, at least for the immediate and the proximate, if not the distal. But it is a balancing act, I'll grant. ---larry