PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
The graph preserves both published analyses. The newer Merriam-Webster route uses *(s)kend- and explains candēre through a zero-grade stative formation; the prior *kand- route remains proposed.
/ˈkændɪd/ · adjective
Open or frank in modern English, inherited through French and Latin from a family of brightness and whiteness.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
Publishes the reconstructed shining root used by the new dossiers.
Word History: *(s)kend- derivationPreserves the older reviewed Latin base and its separately qualified deeper analysis.
Headword candeo and existing proposed *kand- routeThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.