PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
No. The asterisk marks a comparative reconstruction, and the reviewed source stops at the speaking root rather than identifying any spoken first word.
/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
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.
Marks the forms as comparative reconstructions and supplies no attested first word.
wer-5 heading: oldest form *werh1- and suffixed formsShows comparison rather than a claim about primordial speech.
Etymology labels Latin, Greek, and Hittite forms as akinThe dossier ends at a knowledge boundary after the starred root.