CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 709
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
Was Devil the ordinary meaning of fīunt?
No. ONW defines the main sense as enemy or opponent and says other WPs occurrences translate Latin inimicus; the Devil branch depends on the disputed diabolus gloss.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 709
fīunt
not directly recoverable · Old Dutch masculine noun
Old Dutch fīunt is the normalized headword behind a twenty-six-occurrence historical-dictionary record for enemy or opponent. ONW classifies the noun as synchronically unsegmented but says it was originally the present participle of the verb corresponding to Old High German fīēn and Gothic fijan, a verb no longer known in Dutch. Its frequency table preserves six case-number cells: nominative and genitive singular plus nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative plural. Those are not a complete paradigm. The article displays twenty representative location blocks after warning that locations in the semantic profile have been reduced. Most early Wachtendonck Psalms material is linguistically dated 901–1000 but survives in copies dated 1595–1605, circa 1598, or 1701–1800; no tenth-century manuscript object was inspected. One dfiunt or fiunt gloss aligned with Latin diabolus is textually disputed, and one Groningen psalm gloss is explicitly assigned to Old Frisian by the dictionary. This dossier therefore treats fīunt as a nominal fossil with a partially preserved inflectional record, not as a productive Old Dutch participle or a complete transparent paradigm.
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
Oudnederlands Woordenboek — fīunt
Shows the ordinary sense and the narrow disputed Devil branch.
Sense 1 enemy or opponent; sense 2 note on inimicus versus diabolus- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal editorial team
- YEAR
- 2009
- PUBLISHER
- Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The semantic profile separates the broad first sense from one disputed second-sense record.
RESOLUTION NOTEThe main gloss remains enemy or opponent.