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Jan van Steenbergen scripsit:
> I wonder if the Romance languages also have examples of triplets:
> (1) words inherited from Vulgar Latin;
> (2) later borrowings from Classical Latin;
> (3) later borrowings from other Romance languages.
Romanian, in which the difference between (1) and (2) is very vivid,
got a heavy overlay of French lexis in the 19th century. Spanish also
has 3 flavors: inherited, borrowed, and a third class that is either
(1) modified by (2) or (2) modified by (1), depending on which scholars
you listen to.
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