*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 927

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 03uncertainNO SINGLE PIN

*frijōnd-

Germanic participial-formation horizon

friend DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The loving-one agent formation predates the daughter-language records, but its exact lexicalization moment and inflectional shape remain reconstructed.

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.

The same broad language horizon does not imply an exact coinage date.

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 — friend, n. & adj.

    Publishes the Germanic present-participial formation and morphology.

    Etymology Summary and Form historyAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. context

    An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online — freónd

    Supplies the Old English reflex and its grammatical analysis.

    Grammar: freónd, freónde loving, participle of freónAUDIT SOURCE ↗