Appendix:English doublets

This lists English doublets, English words that etymologically descend from the same ancestral word without much morphological change. To make the page easier to navigate, the doublets are grouped by the language of the ancestral word or by sound changes that they have undergone.

Old English palatalization
In Old English, c, g, and sc were palatalized in certain cases. See on Wikipedia for more information. In the examples below, four changes are seen:
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Other

 * : (from Old English),  (from Gothic through Italian and French)
 * : (inherited),  (from Old Norse)
 * : (from Old English),  (recent borrowing from German)
 * : (through Amoy Min-Nan and Dutch),  (through Hindi–Urdu),  (through Hindi–Urdu and a northern variety of Chinese or through Cantonese)