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‘Rich’ comes from a Proto-Germanic borrowing of *rīxs, the Proto-Celtic cognate of Latin ‘rēx’ (king).
Latin ‘rēx’ is the ancestor of Spanish ‘rey’ and French ‘roi’. ‘Regal’ and ‘royal’ are derived from it.
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