Reviewed dossiers resolved from the request.
MULTI-WORD EVIDENCE LAB
PAIRWISE LAB ↗THE QUESTION THE GRAPH WAS BUILT TO ANSWER2–8 WORDS
CONNECT
THE WHOLE
FAMILY.
Ask how several words are related. *SET-U computes pairwise shortest paths, then builds a compact spanning forest from cited lexical edges. A shared person or text may bridge islands, but it is never mislabeled as ancestry.
Distinct forms in the spanning evidence network.
Distinct cited lexical relationships used.
Distinct bibliographic records supporting this view.
ONE REVIEWED NETWORK1 lexical branches · 0 context bridges
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THE SPANNING EVIDENCE FOREST
1 BRANCHES CONNECT THE RESOLVED WORDS
REVIEWED LEXICAL PATH
2 EDGESalgorism ↔ algorithm
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Present-Day English · early 13th century–today
attestedalgorism
calculation with Hindu-Arabic numerals; an arithmetic rule or procedure
historical continuation
Calculation with Hindu-Arabic numerals remains central; later use becomes chiefly historical.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Middle English algorisme / augrim stabilizes as the historical headword algorism with regularized spelling and pronunciation.
Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors · establishedAlgorism — Word History · Etymology and First Known Use ↗OPEN EDGE 495 ↗02
Middle English · 14th–15th centuries
attestedalgorisme / augrim
arithmetic using Hindu-Arabic numerals
alteration
Arithmetic or numeral procedure narrowed and generalized into a finite stepwise procedure.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
The older ending -ism was reshaped to -ithm, commonly explained through association with Greek arithmos “number.”
Merriam-Webster · MacTutor editors · probableAlgorithm — Word History · Etymology and First Known Use ↗OPEN EDGE 83 ↗03
WHAT THIS VIEW PROVES
COMPACT DOES NOT MEAN CERTAIN
Every resolved pair is searched through the undirected reviewed graph, bounded at 12 edges.
Cited ancestry, borrowing, derivation, and semantic continuation paths are preferred over historical-context bridges.
The shortest available pair paths are greedily selected until each connectable word belongs to one network.
This is a compact evidence view, not a claim that scholarship has one uniquely minimal family tree.