*SET-U

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.

2WORDS

Reviewed dossiers resolved from the request.

11NODES

Distinct forms in the spanning evidence network.

10EDGES

Distinct cited lexical relationships used.

7SOURCES

Distinct bibliographic records supporting this view.

ONE REVIEWED NETWORK1 lexical branches · 0 context bridges
logicetymology
01

THE SPANNING EVIDENCE FOREST

1 BRANCHES CONNECT THE RESOLVED WORDS

01
REVIEWED LEXICAL PATH

logic ↔ etymology

10 EDGES
01
Present-Day English · 12th century–today

logic

the study or use of valid reasoning

attested
inheritance

The technical discipline broadened into everyday “reasoning” and, later, computational circuitry.

SOUND + EVIDENCE

Middle English final consonant and vowel pattern stabilized as modern logic with later pronunciation change.

Merriam-Webster editors · establishedLogic — Word History · Word History and modern senses ↗OPEN EDGE 42 ↗
02
Middle English · Middle English

logik

the science of reasoning

attested
borrowing

The scholastic discipline retained its core reference.

SOUND + EVIDENCE

Middle English adapted the Anglo-French form and spelling.

Merriam-Webster editors · establishedLogic — Word History · Etymology ↗OPEN EDGE 43 ↗
03
Anglo-French · Anglo-French / medieval French

logique

logic; rational art

attested
borrowing

The name of the rational art remained technical.

SOUND + EVIDENCE

French transmitted the learned Latin form with Romance phonology.

French and Latin historical lexicography · establishedLogic — Word History · Etymology ↗OPEN EDGE 44 ↗
04
Latin · Latin scholarly tradition

logica

logic; the logical art

attested
borrowing

The Greek “logical art” became the Latin discipline.

SOUND + EVIDENCE

Latin logica borrowed and adapted Greek λογική.

Merriam-Webster · Greek lexicography · establishedLogic — Word History · Etymology ↗OPEN EDGE 45 ↗
05
Ancient Greek · Ancient Greek

λογική

the logical art or science

attested
derivation

“Pertaining to reasoning” becomes the name of the art itself.

SOUND + EVIDENCE

Greek λογική is the substantivized feminine of λογικός, conventionally with an understood noun such as τέχνη.

Ancient Greek lexicography · establishedLogeion: λογικός · λογικός ↗OPEN EDGE 46 ↗
06
Ancient Greek · Ancient Greek

λογικός

of speech, reason, or reasoning

attested
derivation

The broad λόγος family narrows to what pertains to account, reason, or discourse.

SOUND + EVIDENCE

λογικός is formed on λόγος with the adjectival suffix -ικός.

Ancient Greek lexicography · establishedLogeion: λόγος · λόγος ↗OPEN EDGE 47 ↗
07
Ancient Greek · Ancient Greek

λόγος

word, speech, account, reckoning, reason

attested
compound member

The “account / study” member combines with ἔτυμος “true, real” to form etymology.

SOUND + EVIDENCE

Greek ἐτυμολογία contains the -λογία formation belonging to the λόγος family.

Ancient Greek lexicography · establishedLogeion: ἐτυμολογία · ἐτυμολογία ↗OPEN EDGE 51 ↗
08
Ancient Greek · classical / Hellenistic

ἐτυμολογία

analysis of a word’s true sense

attested
borrowing

A Greek technical concept entered Latin grammatical tradition.

SOUND + EVIDENCE

Latin borrowed Greek ἐτυμολογία.

Latin and Greek lexicography · establishedLogeion: etymologia · etymologia ↗OPEN EDGE 9 ↗
09
Latin · antiquity–medieval

etymologia

explanation of a word by its origin

attested
borrowing

Scholarly explanation of a word’s origin continued.

SOUND + EVIDENCE

Old French transmitted the learned Latin form.

French historical lexicography · establishedÉtymologie: étymologie · Étymologie ↗OPEN EDGE 8 ↗
10
Old French · 14th c.

ethimologie

derivation of a word

attested
borrowing

The technical term broadened into the modern historical discipline.

SOUND + EVIDENCE

English adapted the learned French form and later aligned spelling with the classical model.

OED · historical lexicography · establishedEtymology — Word History · Word History ↗OPEN EDGE 7 ↗
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WHAT THIS VIEW PROVES

COMPACT DOES NOT MEAN CERTAIN

01PAIRWISE SEARCH

Every resolved pair is searched through the undirected reviewed graph, bounded at 12 edges.

02LEXICAL FIRST

Cited ancestry, borrowing, derivation, and semantic continuation paths are preferred over historical-context bridges.

03SPANNING FOREST

The shortest available pair paths are greedily selected until each connectable word belongs to one network.

04NO STEINER CLAIM

This is a compact evidence view, not a claim that scholarship has one uniquely minimal family tree.