Middle English -rede / -reden reduces Old English -ræden, including loss and variation of the final weak syllable and regular orthographic simplification.
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COVERAGE LEDGER ↗EDGE / 1092inheritanceestablished
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-rede / -reden
a state, condition, quality, status, estimation, rule, or relation to X
OPEN NODE 1098 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedOld English · Old English · condition status affixoid-ræden
condition, state, estimation, rule, or relation to the first compound element
OPEN NODE 1085 ↗01
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The older condition, status, estimation, or rule element survives as a narrowing and increasingly fossilized condition-forming suffix.
Old English into Middle English.
Middle English Dictionary Editors · Elizabeth Closs Traugott · Merriam-Webster Editors
established — The sources agree on the Old English ancestry and declining medieval productivity.
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-rē̆de(n suffix — Middle English DictionaryEtymology, forms, and definition 1
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents medieval suffix forms and Old English ancestry.
Toward a constructional framework for research on language changepp. 96–97: productivity loss and relic forms
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents decline across the medieval period.
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