Краткий курс лекций по лексикологии английского языка для студентов неязыковых вузов. Москалёва Е.В. - 38 стр.

            of the same language which were derived by different roots from
            the same basic word. They differ to a certain degree in form,
            meaning and current usage. Two words at present slightly
            differentiated in meaning may have originally been dialectal
            variants of the same word. Thus we find in doublets traces of Old
            English dialects. Examples are whole (in the old sense of
            “healthy” or “free from disease”) and hale. The latter has survived
            in its original meaning and is preserved in the phrase hale and
            hearty. Both come from OE hãl: the one by the normal
            development of OE ã into õ, the other from a northern dialect in
            which this modification did not take place. Similarity there are
            the doublets raid and road, their relationship remains clear in the
            term inroad which means “a hostile incursion”, “a raid”. The
            verbs drag and draw both came from OE dragan.
                  The words shirt, shriek, shabby come down from Old
            English, whereas their respective doublets skirt, screech, scar and
            scabby are etymologically cognate Scandinavian borrowings.
            These doublets are characterized by a regular variation of sh and
            sc.
                  The Latin word discus is the origin of a whole group of
            doublets:
                  dais < ME deis < OE deis < Lat discus
                  dish < ME dish < OE dis c< Lat discus
                  disc/disk < Lat discus
                  discus (in sport) < Lat discus
                  Other doublets that for the most part justify their names by
            coming in pairs show in their various ways the influence of the
            language or dialect systems which they passed before entering the
            English vocabulary.
                  Compare words were borrowed in Middle English from
            Parisian French: chase, chieftain, chattels, guard, gage with their
            doublets of Norman French origin: catch, captain, cattle, ward,
            wage.




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