*SET-U

THE GLOBAL LANGUAGE GRAPH

FAMILY ATLAS ↗

THE GENEALOGY, NOT THE GLOSSARY

NODE → EDGE → FAMILY → HUMAN LANGUAGE

THE WHOLE GRAPH.
NO INVENTED BRIDGES.

Every reviewed historical form and relationship in one navigable system. Where evidence connects families, the graph connects them. Where it does not, the space between them remains visible.

1061CANONICAL NODES

Attested forms, reconstructions, and explicit limits.

1025REVIEWED EDGES

Every relationship carries two change claims and evidence.

54EVIDENCE FAMILIES

Disconnected components stay disconnected.

133* RECONSTRUCTIONS

Inferred forms remain visibly different from records.

1669EDGE CITATIONS

515 distinct sources attached to relationships.

11DEEPEST GRAPH PATH

Topological steps, not a fabricated universal timescale.

01

THE WHOLE REVIEWED GRAPH

25 CONNECTED FAMILIES.
29 HONEST ISLANDS.

02 / SELECTED EVIDENCE COMPONENT

*man-¹ + kwīpe + wīb

man · wīb · wife · woman

ATTESTED* RECONSTRUCTEDBOUNDARYMODERN DOSSIERLATER FORM → EARLIER FORM
21MATCHING NODES
20MATCHING EDGES

The complete component remains visible. Filters emphasize matching evidence; they never amputate surrounding history.

LAYER 00LATERLAYER 01ROOTWARDLAYER 02ROOTWARDLAYER 03ROOTWARDLAYER 04ROOTWARDLAYER 05ROOTWARDLAYER 06ROOTWARDLAYER 07HORIZONATTESTEDPresent-Day Englishman

human being; adult male human

man
ATTESTEDPresent-Day Englishwife

married woman in relation to a spouse

wife
ATTESTEDPresent-Day Englishwoman

adult female human being

woman
ATTESTEDGermanWeib

woman; wife; increasingly discriminatory term

ATTESTEDMiddle Englishman

human being; man

man
ATTESTEDMiddle Englishwif

woman; wife

wife
ATTESTEDMiddle High Germanwīp

woman; wife

ATTESTEDMiddle Englishwomman

woman

woman
ATTESTEDOld High Germanwīb

woman; wife in recorded expressions

wīb
ATTESTEDOld Englishwīfman

woman; female person

woman
ATTESTEDOld Englishmann

human being; person; man

man
ATTESTEDOld Englishwīf

woman; wife

woman · wife
* RECONSTRUCTEDProto-Germanic*mann-

human being; person

man
ATTESTEDTocharian Bkwīpe

shame; modesty; woman comparison

KNOWLEDGE BOUNDARYBeyond secure reconstructionUNKNOWN

No securely promoted ancestor is currently known beyond this component in the dossier spine.

woman
KNOWLEDGE BOUNDARYBeyond secure reconstructionUNKNOWN

No securely promoted direct ancestor is currently known beyond Old English wīf.

wife
KNOWLEDGE BOUNDARYBeyond secure reconstructionUNKNOWN

No securely reconstructed direct ancestor is currently promoted beyond Old High German wīb.

wīb
* RECONSTRUCTEDProto-Indo-European*manu-

human being; man

man
KNOWLEDGE BOUNDARYBeyond secure reconstructionUNKNOWN

No securely promoted shared ancestor is currently known for the wīf and kwīpe comparison.

* RECONSTRUCTEDProto-Indo-European*man-¹

man; human being

man
KNOWLEDGE BOUNDARYBeyond secure reconstructionUNKNOWN

No securely promoted ancestor is currently known beyond the reviewed human-being root.

man
EDGECHILD → PARENTRELATION / SCHOLARCONFIDENCEEVIDENCE
0804woman → womman

continuationMerriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors

established2 citations / 2 sources ↗
0805womman → wīfman

continuationMerriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors

established2 citations / 2 sources ↗
0806wīfman → wīf

compound componentMerriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors

established2 citations / 2 sources ↗
0807wīf → UNKNOWN

knowledge boundarySET-U editorial boundary

boundary2 citations / 2 sources ↗
0808man → man

continuationMerriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors

established2 citations / 2 sources ↗
0809man → mann

continuationMerriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors

established2 citations / 2 sources ↗
0810mann → *mann-

inheritanceCalvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors

established1 citations / 1 sources ↗
0811*mann- → *manu-

inheritanceCalvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors

established1 citations / 1 sources ↗
0812*manu- → *man-¹

derivationCalvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors

established1 citations / 1 sources ↗
0813*man-¹ → UNKNOWN

knowledge boundarySET-U editorial boundary

boundary1 citations / 1 sources ↗
0841wīfman → mann

compound componentMerriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors

established2 citations / 2 sources ↗
0866wife → wif

continuationMerriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors

established2 citations / 2 sources ↗
0867wif → wīf

continuationMerriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors

established2 citations / 2 sources ↗
0868wīf → UNKNOWN

knowledge boundarySET-U editorial boundary

boundary2 citations / 2 sources ↗
0892wīf → kwīpe

proposed comparisonMerriam-Webster Editors

probable1 citations / 1 sources ↗
0893kwīpe → UNKNOWN

knowledge boundarySET-U editorial boundary

boundary1 citations / 1 sources ↗
0902wīb → UNKNOWN

knowledge boundarySET-U editorial boundary · Duden Editors

boundary1 citations / 1 sources ↗
0905Weib → wīp

historical continuationDuden Editors · Freie Universität Berlin Editors

established2 citations / 2 sources ↗
0906wīp → wīb

continuationDuden Editors · Freie Universität Berlin Editors

established2 citations / 2 sources ↗
0907wīf → UNKNOWN

cognate horizonMerriam-Webster Editors · Duden Editors

probable2 citations / 2 sources ↗
03

HOW TO READ THE MAP

CONNECTION IS A CLAIM.

01COMPONENTS

A family exists only when reviewed canonical edges connect its nodes. Empty space means the evidence is still disconnected.

02LAYERS

Left-to-right depth is topological descent through claims, not a universal calendar or an assertion of equal duration.

03NODES

Language, form, status, gloss, dossier reuse, and a permanent node record travel together.

04EDGES

Every line resolves to a relationship record with sound change, semantic change, scholar, confidence, and citations.

05ASTERISKS

Every reconstructed form keeps its asterisk. Attested and inferred evidence never share one visual state.

06HORIZONS

Boundary nodes are not ancestors. They say exactly where this reviewed path currently stops.