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PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD

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DISPUTE
RECORD.

One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.

openproposed

Does loaf have a securely established Indo-European root?

Not in the reviewed evidence. *Hlaibaz is reconstructed as Proto-Germanic, while a shared European substrate source with Greek baking-vessel words is introduced only as perhaps.

WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 287

loaf

/loʊf/ · noun

A shaped mass of bread; the inherited noun continues Old English hlāf through Middle English lof and a reconstructed Germanic bread word.

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DIRECT 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.

02 / EDITORIAL STATE

THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN.

CONFIDENCE
proposed
STATUS
open
LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
American Heritage distinguishes the Germanic reconstruction from a tentative substrate comparison.
RESOLUTION NOTE

The main spine ends at an explicit boundary; the Greek forms remain graph-only proposed comparisons.