*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 773

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 07uncertainNO SINGLE PIN

German Feind beside English fiend

Cross-Germanic semantic comparison

Feind DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

German keeps ordinary enemy central; the English cognate foregrounds demon and vicious-person senses. Cognacy does not force identical daughter-language histories.

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

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

This is a comparative semantic stage across languages, not a single migration route or coordinate.

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

    Oxford English Dictionary — fiend, n., revised 2026

    Documents the English semantic development and German comparative form.

    Meaning history and Germanic cognate setAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    DWDS — Feind, etymology after Wolfgang Pfeifer

    Places the German and English words in the same inherited family.

    Pfeifer etymology: German Feind, Old English fēond, English fiendAUDIT SOURCE ↗