No older form is promoted beyond the proposed *prī- comparison.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP RECORD
COVERAGE LEDGER ↗EDGE / 1298knowledge boundaryboundary
A CLAIM
YOU CAN AUDIT.
A relationship—not a generated explanation. Both endpoints, every editorial field, every citation, and every dossier reuse are preserved below.
*prī-
a proposed Indo-European root compared with the Germanic friend and free family
OPEN NODE 1314 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction · beyond the proposed *prī- comparison · freond deep boundaryUNKNOWN
No securely reviewed older ancestor or uniquely recoverable original social meaning is currently known.
OPEN NODE 1336 ↗01
THE COMPLETE RELATIONSHIP
EVERY FIELD, NOT A FAIRY TALE
The graph stops before the Old English social range is reverse-engineered into one universal prehistoric institution of love, freedom, friendship, kinship, or alliance.
No separate chronology note is attached beyond the endpoint date ranges.
SET-U editorial boundary · American Heritage Dictionary editors
boundary — The deepest displayed form is already reconstructed and proposed; no reviewed earlier node clears the evidence boundary.
reviewed
02
CITATION REGISTER
SOURCES ON THIS EDGE
American Heritage Dictionary — friendDeepest displayed prī- cross-reference
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Supports stopping after the proposed comparison rather than inventing an earlier form.
03
EDITORIAL REUSE