PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. English word is inherited through Old English and Germanic; Latin verbum is an akin or cognate branch under the shared speaking root, not the donor.
/wɜːrd/ · noun
A meaningful spoken or written unit; an inherited English form whose Germanic branch is cognate with Latin verbum rather than borrowed from it.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Places Germanic *wurdam and Latin verbum in parallel reconstructed branches.
wer-5 sections 1 and 2Distinguishes inherited ancestry from an akin Latin form.
Etymology: Old English; akin to Latin verbumDefines the methodological distinction used by the resolution.
Dictionary-etymology method: akin forms are not the direct borrowing lineThe canonical graph joins word and verbum only at reconstruction and never draws a Latin-to-English borrowing edge.