PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. Project Wulfila exposes 42 candidates under fijan, but only 13 are verified, eight more are lexically unambiguous but unverified, and 21 are explicitly shared with the fijands noun inventory.
/ˈfi.jan/ · Gothic class-III weak-verb lemma
A Gothic class-III weak verb conventionally glossed hate or detest. Project Wulfila currently exposes 42 candidate tokens under fijan: 13 verified, eight further lexically unambiguous, and 21 explicitly ambiguous with the masculine nd-stem noun fijands, enemy. The surface inventory contains fifteen written shapes, including one exact infinitive fijan in John 7:7 and four j-less forms. Ayora Estevan shows why the overlap cannot be normalized away: Proto-Germanic had already lexicalized *fi(j)and- as enemy, while Gothic still used the matching present-participial formation for one who hates.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Defines the 42 candidates and their status partition.
Occurrence inventory: 13 verified, eight unambiguous, 21 ambiguousConfirms that 21 surface tokens are also candidates under fijands.
Occurrence inventory: five noun-only and 21 shared candidatesEvery total is labeled candidate inventory, and the 21-token overlap remains visible.