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Doublets are “etymological siblings”, and, even though the term suggests it, they do not necessarily only form pairs. In English, where – because of its history of extensive influence exerted by speakers of different languages – the lexicon is extremely broad and complex, there are many cases of multiplets, i.e., whole word families with a common etymological root which can often be traced back to...