*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 928

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 04broadNO SINGLE PIN

frēond, frīond, friand, and inflected forms

Old English textual record

friend DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

OED and Bosworth–Toller document dialectal and inflectional variation across Old English texts without reducing the language to one birthplace.

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

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

Conventional Old English bounds; individual source records are separately qualified.

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.

    Documents the Old English textual and variant record.

    Old English quotations and Forms tabAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online — freónd

    Supplies the Old English headword, inflection, and cognate set.

    Headword, grammar, examples, and etymologyAUDIT SOURCE ↗