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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.
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 01supportshistorical dictionary
Loaf — American Heritage Dictionary
Grades the substrate analysis below the Germanic reconstruction.
Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz; perhaps same European substrate source as Greek klībanos and krībanos- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
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 NOTEThe main spine ends at an explicit boundary; the Greek forms remain graph-only proposed comparisons.