*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 104

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 01uncertainNO SINGLE PIN

Proto-Indo-European prehistory

Reconstructed Indo-European speech communities

nice DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The comparison of Latin scīre with a reconstructed cutting or separating root is published but disputed; it remains unpinned and unnormalized.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
uncertain
TIME PRECISION
unresolved
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
WITHHELD
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

The sources disagree about formation and semantic development, so no numeric prehistoric interval is attached to this proposed route stage.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. challenges

    Science — Word History

    Reviews competing formations for Latin scīre and says the semantic development from cutting or flaying to knowing is questionable, preventing the route from presenting *skei- as settled.

    Word History: Etymology notes on scīreAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    Indo-European Root skei-

    Publishes the reconstructed “cut, split” root and derives Latin scīre through a “distinguish, know” development, while the route keeps the comparison explicitly proposed.

    Root *skei-, section 2AUDIT SOURCE ↗