Doublet

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

In etymology, doublets (alternatively etymological twins or twinlings) are words in a given language that come from the same etymon. Many doublets in English resulted from borrowing of related words from other languages.

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