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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
7 EDGESétymologie ↔ etymology
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French · Modern French record–today
attestedétymologie
study or explanation of the origin and historical development of words
historical continuation
A learned word used for titles, word explanations, and wordplay developed the modern linguistic senses.
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French spelling regularized medieval variants such as ethimologie toward étymologie.
CNRTL Editors · Académie française Editors · establishedÉtymologie: étymologie · History sections 0, A, and B ↗OPEN EDGE 562 ↗02
Old French · Old French records from c. 1175
attestedethimologie
title reference, word explanation, or learned wordplay depending on the witness
borrowing
Scholarly explanation of a word’s origin continued.
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Old French transmitted the learned Latin form.
French historical lexicography · establishedÉtymologie: étymologie · Origin: Latin etymologia ↗OPEN EDGE 563 ↗03
Latin · Classical Latin–medieval learned Latin
attestedetymologia
etymology; explanation by origin
borrowing
A Greek technical concept entered Latin grammatical tradition.
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Latin borrowed Greek ἐτυμολογία.
Latin and Greek lexicography · establishedÉtymologie: étymologie · Origin: Latin from Greek ἐτυμολογία ↗OPEN EDGE 564 ↗04
Ancient Greek · Hellenistic and later Greek
attestedἐτυμολογία
inquiry into a word’s true sense
derivation
The name of an inquiry becomes an adjective meaning belonging to or based on that inquiry.
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Greek ἐτυμολογικός adds the adjectival suffix -ικός to ἐτυμολογία.
Merriam-Webster Editors · establishedEtymological — Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary · Word History: Greek etymologikos from etymologia + -ikos ↗OPEN EDGE 581 ↗05
Ancient Greek · post-Classical Ancient Greek, broad horizon
attestedἐτυμολογικός
belonging to or based on etymology
borrowing
The adjective retained the sense of belonging to or based on etymology.
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Latin etymologicus adapted Greek etymologikos within learned grammatical vocabulary.
Merriam-Webster Editors · establishedÉtymologique — Trésor de la langue française informatisé · Latin etymologicus; nomina etymologica in Diomedes ↗OPEN EDGE 580 ↗06
Latin · Late Latin grammatical tradition
attestedetymologicus
etymological; conforming to etymology
learned formation
A Latin adjective about word origins becomes the English adjective of relation or conformity.
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English drops Latin -us through the learned adjective etymologic and adds adjectival -al; a competing internal etymology + -ical analysis remains visible in the graph.
Merriam-Webster Editors · probableEtymological — Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary · Word History: etymological from etymologic + -al; etymologic from Latin etymologicus ↗OPEN EDGE 586 ↗07
Present-Day English · 1588–today
attestedetymological
of, relating to, or based on etymology
competing derivation
The discipline noun becomes a relational adjective.
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English etymological is alternatively segmented as etymology plus -ical.
Douglas Harper · proposedEtymological — Online Etymology Dictionary · Word origin: etymology + -ical ↗OPEN EDGE 607 ↗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.