etymology, doublets (alternatively etymological twins or twinlings) are words in a given language that share the same etymological root. Doublets are often...

invented by Lewis Carroll Doublet (linguistics), two or more words of the same language that come from the same root Doublet, in textual criticism, two different...

In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in...

a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical). In linguistics, a lexicon is a language's inventory of lexemes. The word lexicon derives...

forms historically, such as especially > specially. The result may be doublets, such as especially and specially, or the pre-apheresis form may fail to...

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) *laks. Lax, chiefly a British English word for salmon, is a doublet of the word inherited from Middle English. The word has various cognates...

Romance linguistics is the scientific study of the Romance languages. Romance languages have a number of shared features across all languages: Romance...

a subfield within linguistics, etymology has become a more rigorously scientific study. Most directly tied to historical linguistics, philology, and semiotics...

names include: awapuhi (from Hawaiian: ʻawapuhi spelled with an ʻokina, doublet of ʻawa), bitter ginger, shampoo ginger, lempoyang (from Malay) and pinecone...

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not...

In linguistics and stylistics, an irreversible binomial, frozen binomial, binomial freeze, binomial expression, binomial pair, or nonreversible word pair...

derived from standard, rather than Norman, French. Examples of the resulting doublet pairs include warden (from Norman) and guardian (from later French; both...

but the southern dialect retains them. In Tsʼixa, the change has created doublets with palatal clicks vs palatal plosives. List of Proto-Khoe reconstructions...

other.[clarification needed] Antanaclasis Cognate object Hendiadys Legal doublet Merism Pleonasm (the use of more words than necessary to express an idea)...

alternations, many of which have been levelled, but traces occur in some word doublets such as ditch /dɪtʃ/ and dike /daɪk/. In the past tense of certain verbs...

origin and evolution of NEAs, in particular by analyzing the formation of doublet craters found on the terrestrial planets. JPL · 7355 7356 Casagrande 1995...

origin from Vulgar Latin). This has led to many cases of etymological doublets in these languages. For most Romance languages, these loans were initiated...

the development of terminology, the elimination of old morphological doublets, the flowering of literature: Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, Virgil, Horace,...

⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In historical linguistics, the High German consonant shift or second Germanic consonant shift is...

present in three dialects of the Southern Ryukyuan language group. Also, the doublet wo meaning "hemp" is attested in Western Old Japanese and Southern Ryukyuan...

Papers in Linguistics. 17: 11–57. doi:10.17161/KWPL.1808.644. hdl:1808/644. ISSN 1043-3805. Proulx, Paul (1994). "Proto-Algic V: Doublets and their Implications"...

obscure quite early and produced a whole bouquet of folk etymological doublets. Old High German driscubli stands especially close to the sought-after...

ancient India appear inconsistent in their use of "r" and "l", resulting in doublets that are occasionally semantically differentiated. Sanskrit possesses a...

partially in Low Saxon, producing doublets of words with a/e in Old Saxon. In Middle Low German, most of these doublets were eliminated in favor of the...

position in the alphabet between epsilon and zeta. It is the consonantal doublet of the vowel letter upsilon (/u/), which was also derived from waw but...

Steven R. (2001-06-01). "Mangarevan Doublets: Preliminary Evidence for Proto-Southeastern Polynesian". Oceanic Linguistics. 40 (1): 112–124. doi:10.1353/ol...

etymological doublets, being borrowed both through a later learned, direct route, and earlier through an organic, indirect route: Other doublets come from...

'grass' (which thus forms a minimal pair in Argentine Spanish with the doublet yerba [ˈʒeɾβa] 'maté leaves'). There are some alternations between the...

distinguish it within the Eastern Romance languages, in comparative linguistics it is called Daco-Romanian as opposed to its closest relatives, Aromanian...

many Chinese varieties, and the reading distinctions for these linguistic doublets often typify a dialect group. Literary readings (文读; 文讀; wéndú) are usually...