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
9 EDGESproverb ↔ etymology
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Present-Day English · 14th century–today
attestedproverb
a brief traditional saying, maxim, or adage
continuation
The traditional-saying sense continues.
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English proverb regularizes the Middle English final vowel while preserving the learned stem.
Merriam-Webster Editors · establishedProverb — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Word History and First Known Use ↗OPEN EDGE 650 ↗02
Middle English · Middle English, 14th century
attestedproverbe
proverb, maxim
borrowing
The traditional maxim enters English through French.
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Middle English proverbe borrows Anglo-French proverbe.
Merriam-Webster Editors · establishedProverb — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Etymology: Middle English proverbe from Anglo-French ↗OPEN EDGE 651 ↗03
Anglo-French · Anglo-French before 1400
attestedproverbe
proverb, maxim
borrowing
The Latin saying term becomes the French and English noun.
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Anglo-French proverbe continues Latin proverbium with Romance loss of the final syllable.
Merriam-Webster Editors · establishedProverb — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Etymology: Anglo-French from Latin proverbium ↗OPEN EDGE 652 ↗04
Latin · Latin antiquity
attestedproverbium
proverb, traditional saying
compound member
A marked or public saying becomes the traditional maxim named by the compound.
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Latin proverbium contains verbum as its lexical member; pro- is exposed as a second canonical parent.
Merriam-Webster Editors · establishedProverb — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Etymology: Latin proverbium from pro- + verbum ↗OPEN EDGE 653 ↗05
Latin · Latin antiquity
attestedverbum
word, utterance, expression, language, discourse
derivation
A word or verb becomes the base of an adjective meaning of or consisting of words.
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Late Latin verbalis adds the relational suffix -alis to verbum.
Merriam-Webster Editors · establishedVerbal — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Etymology: verbalis from verbum + -alis ↗OPEN EDGE 639 ↗06
Latin · Late Latin
attestedverbālis
of or relating to words or verbs
derivational component
The suffix turns word or verb into of or relating to words or verbs.
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Latin verbalis visibly combines the verbum stem with relational -alis.
Merriam-Webster Editors · establishedVerbal — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Etymology: verbalis from verbum + -alis ↗OPEN EDGE 668 ↗07
Latin · Latin antiquity
attested-ālis
of, related to, pertaining to
competing borrowing
The adjective-forming function remains stable.
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English also forms learned words directly on Latin -alis.
Douglas Harper · proposed-al — Online Etymology Dictionary · Middle English from French or directly from Latin -alis ↗OPEN EDGE 610 ↗08
Present-Day English · Middle English–today
attested-al
of, like, related to, or pertaining to
derivational component
The suffix marks relation or pertinence.
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The English adjective ends in productive -al under Merriam-Webster’s segmentation.
Merriam-Webster Editors · establishedEtymological — Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary · Word History: etymologic + -al ↗OPEN EDGE 608 ↗09
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.