PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
The reviewed route is Middle English from Anglo-French from Latin, not a one-hop direct Latin borrowing.
/vɜːrb/ · noun
A grammatical word class expressing action, occurrence, or state; English borrowed the label through Anglo-French from Latin verbum.
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.
Explicitly supplies the mediated route.
Middle English verbe, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from LatinExplains why the intermediate donor is evidence, not decoration.
Dictionary-etymology method: languages name borrowing stagesThe dossier keeps the Anglo-French node instead of compressing it away.