EDGE / 1144knowledge boundaryboundary

A CLAIM
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A relationship—not a generated explanation. Both endpoints, every editorial field, every citation, and every dossier reuse are preserved below.

*peh₁-

a proposed base associated with harm, blame, suffering, or hate

DESCENDS FROM→

No securely accepted earlier ancestor or uniquely recoverable original meaning is known.

THE COMPLETE RELATIONSHIP

SOUND CHANGE

No older form is promoted beyond the proposed *peh₁- comparison.

SEMANTIC CHANGE

The trail ends before the Gothic verb-and-enemy overlap is reverse-engineered into one universal prehistoric meaning.

CHRONOLOGY

No separate chronology note is attached beyond the endpoint date ranges.

SCHOLAR / EDITORIAL AUTHORITY

SET-U editorial boundary · Guus Kroonen

CONFIDENCE

boundary — The deeper base is already proposed; no earlier node is treated as secure.

EDITORIAL STATUS

reviewed

CITATION REGISTER

S01

Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic — *fi(j)ēn- and *fi(j)and-p. 140, deepest published comparison used in this dossier

Supports stopping after the qualified PIE proposal rather than inventing an earlier node.

supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗

EDITORIAL REUSE

*peh₁- → UNKNOWN