CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 265
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
Is man derived from the Indo-European think root?
Not in the reviewed American Heritage analysis. It publishes man-¹, human being, separately from men-¹, to think.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 265
man
/mæn/ · noun
A human being and, in later dominant use, an adult male human; inherited through Old English mann from the Germanic human-person family.
01DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
1 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
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.
SOURCE 01supportsscholarly reference
Indo-European Roots: man-1 and men-1
Publishes the roots as distinct analyses.
Separate man-1 and men-1 entries- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The root appendix separates the entries and their reflexes.
RESOLUTION NOTENo graph edge merges the two roots merely because modern explanations sometimes associate humanity with thought.