*SET-U

THE CHANGE ATLAS

WORD FAMILIES ↗

EVERY REVIEWED EDGE / TWO HISTORIES EACH

FORM → MEANING → EVIDENCE

HOW WORDS MOVE.
HOW MEANINGS MUTATE.

A global atlas of every reviewed transformation in the graph—from lost vowels and borrowed spellings to meanings narrowed, inverted, elevated, and remade.

THE CHANGE CONTRACT

EVERY TRANSFORMATION
IS A CLAIM.

Every edge names the linked forms, relationship, sound history, semantic history, scholar, confidence, chronology when known, and the sources that warrant it. Search the language of change without flattening it.

1025REVIEWED TRANSFORMATIONS

Canonical edges, each carrying form and meaning history.

1025SOUND HISTORIES

No reviewed edge is allowed to omit what changed in form.

1025SEMANTIC HISTORIES

No reviewed edge is allowed to omit what changed in meaning.

1669CLAIM CITATIONS

515 distinct sources support the edge ledger.

280SCHOLAR LABELS

Named analyses remain attached instead of becoming anonymous fact.

78RELATION TYPES

Borrowing, inheritance, derivation, uncertainty, and more stay distinct.

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SEARCH THE TRANSFORMATIONS

FOLLOW CHANGE ITSELF.

1025 MATCHING EDGES

The atlas searches the exact reviewed prose and authoritative edge labels. It does not manufacture universal “sound laws” or semantic categories by guessing from descriptions.

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SEMANTIC HISTORY

1025 EVIDENCE-BACKED CHANGES

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EDGE943proposed
competing derivationMerriam-Webster EditorsPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

Merriam-Webster derives figūra from fig-, a variant stem of fingere, plus -ūra.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

A result or product of shaping becomes form, likeness, and representation.

CONFIDENCE NOTEAmerican Heritage instead prints the noun as a direct suffixed root formation; both analyses remain visible.

EDGE987proposed
competing learned formationMerriam-Webster EditorsPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

Merriam-Webster summarizes English chthonic directly from Greek chthon-, chthōn, while American Heritage supplies Greek khthonios as the immediate adjective.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

Greek earth vocabulary supplies the English underworld adjective under either segmentation.

CONFIDENCE NOTEThe two dictionary segmentations are compatible but not silently collapsed.

EDGE1003proposed
competing borrowingAmerican Heritage Dictionary EditorsPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

American Heritage summarizes English humiliate from Late Latin humiliāre and the stem humiliāt-, without promoting the participle as a separate node.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

To humble or make low develops into causing loss of pride, dignity, or self-respect.

CHRONOLOGYAHD supplies no separately dated transfer event.

CONFIDENCE NOTEThis is compatible source granularity, not a claim of unrelated borrowing.

EDGE1136proposed
competing inheritanceVladimir Orel · Project Wulfila editorsPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

On the inherited analysis, Gothic h and the hat- stem continue the Germanic forms Orel writes with x, while the Gothic class-III paradigm is compared with the reconstructed *xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan alternation.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

The Germanic weak-verb family meaning hate continues in the two surviving Gothic participles, one of which is substantivized as enemies.

CHRONOLOGYProto-Germanic reconstruction into the fourth-century Gothic translation tradition and surviving early-sixth-century manuscript.

CONFIDENCE NOTEThe comparative family is published, but the exact reconstruction varies and Sturtevant argues that Gothic hatan may be a secondary formation beside hatjan rather than a straightforward inherited class-III reflex.

EDGE1141proposed
analogical influenceAlbert Morey Sturtevant · Wilhelm BraunePERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

Sturtevant analyzes hatan beside hatjan through a specifically Gothic secondary association with the fijan/fian pattern; Braune independently records fluctuation between class III and class I.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

The two Gothic hate paradigms overlap semantically and morphologically without proving that every construction or sense was identical.

CHRONOLOGYSynchronic or post-inherited Gothic remodeling before the surviving sixth-century manuscript.

CONFIDENCE NOTEThis is a published internal-Gothic explanation competing with direct inherited class-III analysis, not a claim that attested hatjan is a chronologically older written ancestor.

EDGE1143proposed
competing comparative derivationGuus KroonenPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

The proposed analysis connects the Germanic fi(j)- verb to a laryngeal-bearing Indo-European base through prehistoric present-stem remodeling; intermediate formal analyses vary and are not presented as written stages.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

A proposed harm, blame, suffering, or hostility field develops toward the Germanic verb hate, but the original semantic center is not uniquely recoverable.

CHRONOLOGYProposed Proto-Indo-European base to Proto-Germanic reconstruction.

CONFIDENCE NOTEThe Proto-Germanic comparison is firmer than the displayed PIE route. The exact intermediate reconstruction and semantic unity remain analytical proposals.

EDGE1233proposed
proposed inheritanceJohn T. Koch · Royal Irish Academy eDIL editorsPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

Koch compares Middle Irish cais with Proto-Celtic *katsi-. The reviewed evidence does not publish a complete, dated chain of Goidelic sound changes, so no missing intermediate forms are invented.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

The attested Irish entry carries both love and hate readings. The reconstruction does not identify which reading is older or prove that the opposition was already present in Proto-Celtic.

CHRONOLOGYA conventional Proto-Celtic horizon is compared with source-reported medieval and early modern Irish citations.

CONFIDENCE NOTEThe Celtic comparison is published, but the daughter path is incompletely exposed and the semantic direction remains unknown.

EDGE1234proposed
derivationJohn T. KochPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

Koch analyzes *katsi- from *kad-t/si-. The displayed consonant cluster and affricate outcome follow that published reconstruction rather than an independently observed sound record.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

A proposed suffixal formation is assigned to the Celtic love and hatred field; no single direction of semantic development is recovered.

CHRONOLOGYAnalytical pre-Celtic formation into proposed Proto-Celtic, not directly attested stages.

CONFIDENCE NOTEThe notation and morphological segmentation are a comparative proposal.

EDGE1235proposed
derivationJohn T. Koch · Anatoly LibermanPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

The proposed *kad-t/si- formation is analyzed from the base *kad- with suffixal material.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

The wider comparison links semantically difficult fields including love, hatred, care, grief, and enmity; the graph preserves the comparison without declaring a single original meaning.

CHRONOLOGYTwo reconstructed analytical levels rather than independently dated lexical tokens.

CONFIDENCE NOTEThe formal proposal is published, while the cross-branch semantic unity is disputed.

EDGE1254proposed
competing inheritanceVladimir Orel · Gerhard Köbler · University of Texas Linguistics Research CenterPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

Old Saxon h continues the Germanic fricative represented by Orel as x, while the attested ō-class paradigm is compared with reconstructed weak-verb alternatives. Orel prints *xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan; Köbler prints *hatōn.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

The inherited Germanic hostility verb continues as Old Saxon hate or, in lexicographic description, pursue. The evidence does not establish pursuit as the one earlier or original meaning.

CHRONOLOGYProto-Germanic reconstruction into the Old Saxon Heliand and gloss record.

CONFIDENCE NOTEThe branch lexeme and cross-Germanic family are secure, but reconstruction notation, weak-verb subclass history, and the semantic center vary by source.

EDGE1263proposed
competing inheritanceGerhard KöblerPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

Under Köbler's analysis, the normalized Old Saxon h-ō-t-i frame continues a Germanic *hw-ō-t-j- adjective. The five written Old Saxon surfaces vary between ho- and huo- and across inflectional endings; the edge does not assign one exact phonetic date to those spellings.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

A reconstructed hostile or threatening adjective continues in Heliand contexts of hostile minds and hostile intent. The branch evidence does not prove that sharpened or incited was the adjective's consciously felt meaning.

CHRONOLOGYProto-Germanic reconstruction into the ninth- and tenth-century Heliand witness record.

CONFIDENCE NOTEKöbler explicitly publishes the reconstruction, but UT assigns the same Old Saxon adjective to the hate family instead.

EDGE1264proposed
derivationGerhard KöblerPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

The adjective in *-ja- is compared with the long-vowel Germanic noun *hwōtō. The located entry does not independently settle whether the adjective derives from the noun, the noun from a related verb, or both from a shared base.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

The compared noun means threat while the adjective means hostile or enraged. The graph preserves the semantic proximity without converting it into one documented derivational event.

CHRONOLOGYRelated Proto-Germanic reconstructed formations.

CONFIDENCE NOTEKöbler prints “compare Germanic *hwōtō” rather than a fully argued direction of derivation.

EDGE1265proposed
comparative derivationGerhard Köbler · Linguistics Research Center editorsPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

Köbler compares the Germanic hwōt- formation with Pokorny's labiovelar *kʷē̆d- / *kʷō̆d- complex; the UT page independently displays reflexes with Germanic hw- and meanings sharpen, whet, and incite.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

A physical field of boring, pricking, or stabbing develops in Germanic comparanda toward sharpness, whetting, incitement, and threat. The exact path to the Old Saxon hostile adjective remains proposed.

CHRONOLOGYProposed Indo-European comparison into Proto-Germanic reconstructed formations.

CONFIDENCE NOTEThe deep etymon and Germanic reflex field are published independently, but the specific *hwōtō link is supplied by Köbler and is not listed on UT's reflex page.

EDGE1267proposed
competing inheritanceLinguistics Research Center editors · SET-U cross-source reviewPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

UT places Old Saxon hōti in the same reflex table as hatōn, heti, and the wider Germanic hate family. The atlas crosswalks that classification to its reviewed *hatiz- node without claiming an observed Proto-Germanic token.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

The hostile or inimical adjective is grouped with hate, displeasure, enmity, anger, and persecution. Köbler's distinct *hwōtja- analysis prevents this semantic grouping from being treated as a settled single parent.

CHRONOLOGYAlternative Proto-Germanic reconstruction into the Old Saxon Heliand record.

CONFIDENCE NOTEUT explicitly groups the form with the hate family; Köbler's E field explicitly reconstructs another Germanic family.

EDGE1268proposed
proposed inheritanceMerriam-Webster Editors · John T. Koch · Linguistics Research Center editorsPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

Under the proposed comparison, the palatal stop is represented by Greek k, while the long-vowel pattern appears as Ionic-Attic η beside Doric ā in κᾶδος. The exact Proto-Hellenic sequence and every laryngeal or suffixal step are reconstructed rather than attested.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

The Greek care, anxiety, grief, mourning, and funeral field is compared with a wider formation that also contains hostility and hatred words. The edge does not make every branch sense descend from one recoverable emotional scene.

CHRONOLOGYProposed Indo-European formation into the attested Greek record.

CONFIDENCE NOTEThe formal comparison is published across multiple sources, but Merriam-Webster calls the semantic relations far from transparent and Liberman challenges the wider family's unity.

EDGE1277proposed
comparative derivationAmerican Heritage Dictionary editorsPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

American Heritage compares Germanic *frī- with Indo-European *prī-. The initial Germanic f corresponds to the older labial stop under the comparative analysis; the exact intermediate morphology is not promoted as attested.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

The reconstructed like, love, or friendliness field is compared across Indo-European, but no one original institution of friendship or freedom is recovered.

CHRONOLOGYProposed Indo-European base to Germanic reconstruction.

CONFIDENCE NOTEThe source publishes the root cross-reference, while the accessible record does not establish one directly attested proto-form, sentence, or social structure.

EDGE342speculative
proposed borrowingPeter Zieme and prior scholars reviewed by himPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

A line of argument compares Evenki šamān with Sanskrit śramaṇa through documented Central Asian reflexes, but the exact transmission and sound history into Tungusic are not demonstrated.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

A Buddhist ascetic or monk term is proposed as the source of a Tungusic ritual-specialist word.

CHRONOLOGYHypothetical Central Asian contact before the European record of the Evenki word.

CONFIDENCE NOTEZieme presents the comparison as one of several theories and quotes the absence of direct evidence for the required transmission.

EDGE006boundary
knowledge boundaryOpen research boundaryPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

The comparative method has reached its evidentiary horizon.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

Anything deeper would exceed the securely recoverable record.

1CLAIM CITATIONS
1DISTINCT SOURCES
1LINKED DOSSIERS
EDGE012boundary
knowledge boundaryOpen research boundaryPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

No older form commands secure consensus.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

The brand preserves this uncertainty instead of erasing it.

EDGE020boundary
knowledge boundaryOED · Ernout & MeilletPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

sine cera cannot regularly yield sincerus and lacks documentary support.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

“Without wax” is a later folk story, not an ancestor.

CONFIDENCE NOTEAlternative Latin analyses remain proposed, not settled.

1CLAIM CITATIONS
1DISTINCT SOURCES
1LINKED DOSSIERS
EDGE023boundary
knowledge boundaryEditorial evidence boundaryPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

Competing remote Germanic reconstructions are withheld.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

The site stops before false certainty begins.

1CLAIM CITATIONS
1DISTINCT SOURCES
1LINKED DOSSIERS
EDGE029boundary
knowledge boundaryOpen research boundaryPERMALINK #
WHAT CHANGED IN FORM

Comparative reconstruction reaches its stated horizon.

WHAT CHANGED IN MEANING

Anything deeper would exceed the reviewed evidence.

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READ THE EDGE, NOT JUST THE WORD

TWO HISTORIES TRAVEL TOGETHER.

SOUND HISTORY

Pronunciation, spelling, morphology, loss, insertion, adaptation, and regular historical development.

SEMANTIC HISTORY

Narrowing, broadening, metaphor, social reanalysis, technical specialization, and meaning retained.

EVIDENCE STATUS

Attested forms, reconstructed forms marked by *, and explicit knowledge boundaries never share one certainty label.

AUDIT TRAIL

Scholar, confidence, chronology, source stance, locator, and evidence note remain attached to the atomic edge.