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Connection between res and regula?

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    I hate to see this question downvoted. The question would be better if it showed what research the OP did before asking, or what led to the OP to ask it, but, since the OP is a new user, I hope we can point those things out in comments rather than downvote. If the reason for the downvote is that the answer is "There's no connection", please don't downvote for a reason like that; a "null" answer is still informative to one who doesn't yet know the answer. Commented Aug 27 at 22:51
  • Dear Mr Kovitz I wanted to ask you about what you wrote, but couldn't find how. My studies include philosophical terminology and thing/Ding/res are often opposed to rule/Regel/regula, I try always to check etymology and had the feeling there might such. From a naive viewpoint the identity of the beginning phonetic re is obvious. Commented Aug 28 at 21:29
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There's not really any, as far as we know.

Rēs goes back to Proto-Indo-European *reh₁is "wealth, goods" (at least according to Sihler; there doesn't seem to be much attestation of this root outside Italic though), while rēgula goes back to *h₃reǵ- "rule, govern".

Compare the Sanskrit reflexes of these roots, rai "possessions" and rājati "rule".

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  • So it would be non-etymological to view regula or regere as intentio and res as intentum? Commented Aug 27 at 17:10
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    @user22836 Indeed, they are etymologically unrelated. Commented Aug 27 at 17:19
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    @user22836 There's not really any way to prove a negative in etymology; "etymologically unrelated" basically always means "there's no relationship that we know of". The only cases where we can be certain are when the invention of a new word is thoroughly documented (e.g. in a conlang); even cases on different continents can potentially be connected by phonaesthemes. Commented Sep 1 at 21:04
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    @user22836 That's just how etymology works. The null hypothesis is that everything is unrelated. The goal of the scientist is to find evidence to reject the null hypothesis. You can't really find evidence for the null hypothesis, just a lack of evidence against it. Commented Sep 3 at 1:10
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    @user22836 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis Commented Sep 3 at 16:37

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