*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 666

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 04broadNO SINGLE PIN

kinrede / kindrede and the decline of X-RÆDEN

Middle English records

kindred DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The compound loses the suffix ending, the broader formation competes with -ship, -hood, and -dom, and an intrusive d appears between n and r.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
broad
TIME PRECISION
range
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The sources support gradual morphophonological reduction and falling productivity, not one simultaneous change across every speaker or spelling.

PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗
DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

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

  1. supports

    -rē̆de(n suffix — Middle English Dictionary

    Publishes the medieval suffix variants, functions, and kinrede example.

    -rē̆de(n forms, etymology, and definition 1AUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    Toward a constructional framework for research on language change

    Documents the Middle English decline and the surviving kindred form.

    pp. 96–97: competition, lost productivity, intrusive d, and -en lossAUDIT SOURCE ↗