Appendix talk:English doublets

Near-doublets

• bishop, episcopal (suffixed)
• yard, garden (suffixed)
• lick, lech (suffixed and back-formed)
• wed (obsolete noun), gage, wage
• intricate, intrigue
• divide, devise
• ply, ploy (maybe)
• crypt, grotto (sort of)
• troubadour, trouvère, trouveur
• freight (Old English), fraught (Middle Dutch or Middle Low German)
• staff, stave (back-formation from the plural)
• fire, pyre (AGr. is a derivative)
• aperture, overture (change of prefix)
• horn, corn (“callus”), from *ḱr̥h₂-nó-s?
• role, roll
• gold, zloty (suffixed)
• French, Frankish

• *husǭ: hose, houseau (suffixed)
• *lappô: lap, label (suffixed)
• *stakô: stake, attach/attack (suffixed)
• *rīkijaz: rich, richesse (suffixed)
• *skawwōną: show/showing, scavenger (suffixed)
• *stikōną: stick (verb), ticket/etiquette (suffixed)
• rink, rank, range

A new section: All the way back to PIE?

• corpus, riff. Brought to my attention by Wiktionary:Etymology_scriptorium/2018/January#corpus. --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 19:00, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
  • @Per utramque cavernam: Wow, I was not aware of that one! Done. — Eru·tuon 21:49, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Issues

• How to handle Latin present and perfect passive participial stems?

Interesting refs

• Edward A. Allen, English Doublets
• Karen E. Sesterhenn, An overview of the phenomenon of doublets in English

Putative cases

• scout and auscult. But is scout originally a noun or a verb? Conversion?

Other pairs

• wayn, wagon, but I don't know where to put it.
  •  Done: Old English palatalization section.
• case, chasse, both borrowings from French
• pique, pike
• parrock, paddock, park
• Ganymede, catamite
• paragraph, pilcrow
• cuisine, kitchen
• crevasse, crevice
• espadon, spado
• villein, villain
• travail, travel
  • [1]
• dune, down, -ton, town
• port, fjord, ford, firth
• megrim, migraine, hemicrania
• binnacle, habitacle
• emmet, ant
• influenza, influence
• dauphin, dolphin
• damascene, damson

Formed in English

• acute, cute
• advantage, vantage
• amend, mend
• anatomy, ottomy
• opossum, possum
  • create {{apheresis}}
• coin, quoin, coign
• courtesy, curtsey
• creature, critter
• fantasy, fancy
• genteel, gentle
• metal, mettle
• mode, mood (as in grammatical mood)
• perilous, parlous
• pottage, porridge
• saucy, sassy
• town, -ton (as in Washington, etc.)
• victual, vittle

A new section: oblique case/nominative case?

• shadow, shade
• meadow, mead (etym 2)
• leasow, lease (etym 4)

Names

• Jesus, Joshua, Yeshua
• John, Juan, Johann, Jan, Jean
• Hystaspes, Vishtaspa
• Verethragna, Vahagn
• Yahweh, Jehovah
• Zarathustra, Zoroaster

Frankish

@Leasnam Hello. I've moved most of your Frankish additions to the section "near-doublets" of this talk-page: we try to feature only words that are a direct match morphologically speaking. Hope you don't mind! --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 11:38, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Not at all ! thanks for the explanation :) Leasnam (talk) 15:58, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Borrowings from OE

• burh, borough
• ceorl, churl
• eoten, ettin
• faeder, father
• fyrd, ferd, faird
• heretoga, heretog
• seax, sax
• Wicca, witch (already there)
• wyrd, weird
• wyrm, worm

• Tiw, Tyr