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PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 90

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 03approximateNO SINGLE PIN

Old English inheritance; 13th c. first-known-use horizon

Old and Middle English guest forms

guest DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Old English giest / gyst / gest / gæst continues into Middle English gest / gyst / gust / gist; Old Norse gestr may partly reinforce the initial g.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
approximate
TIME PRECISION
century
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
1
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The numeric layer exposes Merriam-Webster’s thirteenth-century first-known-use horizon for the English noun. The cited Old English inheritance predates that horizon and is not compressed into an invented exact year.

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

    Guest — Word History

    Documents Old and Middle English guest variants, cautious partial Old Norse reinforcement, and the thirteenth-century English first-known-use horizon.

    Noun Etymology and First Known UseAUDIT SOURCE ↗