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Re: [romanceconlang] Romance triplet

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"