*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 75

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 04broadNO SINGLE PIN

14th c. anatomical noun onward; later extensions

English-language muscle senses

muscle DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The anatomical noun continues from the fourteenth century and extends figuratively to strength, force, and coercive power. SET-U keeps this route separate from mussel even though both words shared the spelling muscle in Middle English and converge in the Latin mouse family.

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

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The open interval begins with the reviewed fourteenth-century anatomical horizon. It does not date every figurative strength, force, or power extension to that century.

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

    Muscle — Word History

    Documents the continuing anatomical noun plus strength, power, and force senses, while dating only the core English noun to the fourteenth century.

    Current definitions and Word History: First Known UseAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. context

    Muscle and Mussel — Homophones with More Than One Syllable

    Documents that anatomical muscle and the mollusk word were both spelled muscle in Middle English, supporting the explicit sense split rather than a collapsed route.

    Muscle and mussel history, Middle English spelling overlapAUDIT SOURCE ↗