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
6 EDGESverbal ↔ etymology
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Present-Day English · 15th century–today
attestedverbal
of, relating to, or consisting of words; of a verb; spoken rather than written
continuation
The relational word sense continues while verb-related and spoken-language senses develop alongside it.
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English verbal regularizes the Middle English final vowel while preserving the learned base and suffix.
Merriam-Webster Editors · establishedVerbal — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Definitions, Word History, and First Known Use ↗OPEN EDGE 637 ↗02
Middle English · Middle English, 15th century
attestedverbale
of or consisting of words
borrowing
Of words or verbs enters English and later supports the spoken-rather-than-written contrast.
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Middle English verbale borrows Late Latin verbalis with English adaptation of the final syllable.
Merriam-Webster Editors · establishedVerbal — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Etymology: Middle English verbale borrowed from Late Latin verbalis ↗OPEN EDGE 638 ↗03
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 ↗04
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 ↗05
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 ↗06
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.