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
3 EDGESkayak ↔ qajaq
01
Present-Day English · 1757–today
attestedkayak
a narrow pointed boat propelled by a double-bladed paddle
borrowing
The Indigenous Arctic watercraft name retained its central referent in English and later expanded to modern recreational craft.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Inuit qayaq was adapted to the English spelling kayak and English pronunciation.
Merriam-Webster Editors · establishedKayak — Word History · Word History — Etymology; First Known Use ↗OPEN EDGE 315 ↗02
Inuit source (variety unspecified) · Inuit source form; variety unspecified
attestedqayaq
kayak; traditional narrow skin-covered watercraft
proposed inheritance
The kayak or skin-boat referent remains central across the comparison.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
The broad Inuit qayaq form is compared with Proto-Eskimo *qan-yaq; the notation is source-dependent and does not identify one modern donor variety.
José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente · probableKayak — Word History · Word History — Etymology ↗OPEN EDGE 316 ↗03
Proto-Eskimo · Proto-Eskimo reconstruction
reconstructed*qan-yaq
reconstructed kayak formation
inheritance
The watercraft referent remains central.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Greenlandic qajaq continues the independently reconstructed Proto-Eskimo kayak formation; exact intermediate dialect stages are not over-specified.
José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente · Oqaasileriffik · probableQajaq-terms · Qajaq-terms — qajaq and derived terminology ↗OPEN EDGE 522 ↗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.