Examples in Polish
Doublets
- (o-) pierdolić (fuck, babble, condemn, vulgar language), (o-) pierdzielić (babble, condemn, informal language)—cognate to Russian определять (determine)
- Bogdan, Bohdan (first names)
Triplets
- upiór, wąpierz, wampir (English vampire; detailed out in Polish Wikipedia entry on etymology of wampir)
- szczać (piss, gross wording), sikać (spout, plain, informal wording), siusiać (pee, childish, polite euphemism; however one could argue the latter being simply an irregular diminutive derivation from the former)
- magister, majster, mistrz—from German Meister, Dutch meester, and from Latin magister; cognate to Italian maestro, English master, mister
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