there is also Real/Reais --money in Brazil that was a replacement for the previous hyperinflated currency

and the cheese on most frozen pizzas here is "Made with Real™ cheese" which always makes me laugh.

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and the word "realm", another related word, an old word for kingdom

oh yeah, not to forget

"rei" (ray) means king, and "reina" means queen. and of course "reign" means a period of dominance for something.

i'm pretty sure those words have a link to the common names, also

it's kinda interesting how the word "rei" and the word for a beam of light are the same... and that goes towards the notion of "god rays", a modern expression based on some funny old realism paintings from the 50s of scenes from the bible

i find it endlessly fascinating how these things connect together, so much that it distracts me from doing work, but my work is engineering and this sensitivity to unseen connections helps a lot