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

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Does the Codex Argenteus route map the geographic spread of fijands?

No. Werden, Prague, Stockholm, Holland, and Uppsala trace custody of evidence objects long after Gothic ceased to be a living vernacular in those places.

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fijands

/ˈfi.jands/ · Gothic masculine nd-stem common noun

A Gothic masculine nd-stem noun conventionally glossed enemy. Project Wulfila currently exposes 26 candidates: three verified noun assignments, two further noun-only assignments, and 21 surface forms also listed under the living verb fijan. Ayora Estevan explains the collision diachronically: Proto-Germanic had already lexicalized the present-participial *fi(j)and- as enemy, while Gothic retained productive one-who-hates participles beside the noun. The five noun-only candidates use fiand, fijands, fijande, and fijandis; all five were inspected in Codex Argenteus facsimiles.

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DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE

5 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 CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.

CONFIDENCE
established
STATUS
resolved
LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
Uppsala University documents manuscript custody; the five inspected noun-only tokens belong to one codex.
RESOLUTION NOTE

Post-Ravenna journey stages are labeled object custody rather than lexical diffusion.

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