PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
The Latin knowing family is secure, but the further comparison of scīre with a cutting/separating root is only proposed.
/naɪs/ · adjective
Pleasant, kind, or precise today; a fourteenth-century borrowing whose early senses included foolish, simple, wanton, and fastidious.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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.
Records rival formations and the uncertainty of the cutting or separating comparison.
Etymology notes on the prehistory of scīrePublishes the proposed discern-from-separate semantic bridge.
Root skei-, section 2The reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.