*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 758

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 05uncertainNO SINGLE PIN

later verb continuation and deeper ancestry unresolved

Knowledge boundary

fēogan DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The reviewed trail stops after the Old English verb record and qualified prehistory. The noun family’s later survival does not silently become a continued history of the verb.

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.

No numeric date or map point is asserted for the end of secure knowledge.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

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

  1. supports

    Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic — *fi(j)ēn- and *fi(j)and-

    Supports stopping after the qualified reconstruction.

    p. 140, deepest published comparison used hereAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. context

    Oxford English Dictionary — fiend, n., revised 2026

    Shows survival through the lexicalized noun branch without making that noun the continued verb.

    Fiend etymology and later developmentAUDIT SOURCE ↗