*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 957

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 04broadNO SINGLE PIN

frēond, frīond, frīand, frend, and inflected forms

Old English textual record

frēond DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

OED and Bosworth–Toller document dialect, mutation, inflection, companion, ally, relation, patron, and friend-versus-foe evidence across Old English sources.

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 witnesses remain 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 companion, ally, relation, dialect, and inflection in the Old English record.

    Meanings A.1–A.3; Etymology and Form historyAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online — freónd

    Supplies the noun paradigm and a broad located Old English example set.

    Grammar, examples, and etymologyAUDIT SOURCE ↗