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PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 106

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 03broadNO SINGLE PIN

14th c. English first-known-use horizon

Anglo-French England

nice DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Nice enters Middle English through Anglo-French with foolish, wanton, silly, and simple senses.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
broad
TIME PRECISION
century
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
1
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The whole fourteenth century is exposed as a conservative first-known-use horizon, not an invented exact borrowing year.

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  1. supports

    Nice — Word History

    Reports Middle English foolish and wanton senses, Anglo-French silly and simple, Latin nescius “ignorant,” and a fourteenth-century English first-known-use horizon.

    Word History: Etymology and First Known UseAUDIT SOURCE ↗