*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 22

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 03regionalMAPPABLE REGION

Middle French borrowing; exact onset unresolved

France

disaster DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Middle French desastre borrows the Italian calamity word. Merriam-Webster treats both French and Italian as part of the English borrowing history rather than forcing a single donor label.

COORDINATES STORED
YES
HONEST TO PLOT
YES
PLACEMENT MODE
regional
TIME PRECISION
unresolved
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
WITHHELD
CLAIM CITATIONS
1
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

The Middle French borrowing is directly cited, but the source does not provide one conservative numeric interval for this route stage.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

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

  1. supports

    Disaster — Word History

    Reports Middle French desastre as borrowed from Italian disastro and treats both languages as part of the English borrowing history.

    Word History: EtymologyAUDIT SOURCE ↗