NODE / 1086reconstructedProto-Germanic
*rēdan
TRANSLITERATION *rēdan
condition or arrangement family also associated with counsel
- DATE
- Proto-Germanic
- SENSE
- condition arrangement family
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:5:reedan:reconstructed:sense:condition-arrangement-family
Graph-only reconstructed branch: American Heritage assigns Old English ræden / -ræden and rædan to Germanic *rēdan; Merriam-Webster requires caution about immediately separable Germanic outcomes.
*This form is reconstructed by comparison. It is not directly attested in this exact written form.
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02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
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DESCENDANTinheritanceprobable
Old English · Old English · condition status affixoid-ræden
condition, state, estimation, rule, or relation to the first compound element
- SOUND
- Old English æ and the -en noun formation continue the reconstructed Germanic *rēd- family; exact separation from related *raidja- outcomes is not asserted.
- MEANING
- The reconstructed arrangement or condition family continues as condition, status, estimation, and rule in Old English.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Proto-Germanic reconstruction into attested Old English.
- SCHOLAR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- probable — American Heritage publishes the inheritance; Merriam-Webster preserves uncertainty about the immediate Old English derivational pathways and partial mergers.
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
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HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01inheritanceprobable
- SOUND
- Old English æ and the -en noun formation continue the reconstructed Germanic *rēd- family; exact separation from related *raidja- outcomes is not asserted.
- MEANING
- The reconstructed arrangement or condition family continues as condition, status, estimation, and rule in Old English.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Merriam-Webster Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 1080 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES
STEP 02compound componentestablished
- SOUND
- The second element of cyn-ræden is the suffixal or affixoid use of Old English ræden; this component edge is morphological analysis, not a claim that the whole compound changed into the suffix.
- MEANING
- A condition related to kin yields kinship and, through collective interpretation, family or related people.
Elizabeth Closs Traugott · Merriam-Webster Editors · Middle English Dictionary Editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 1079 ↗ STEP 02inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English -rede / -reden reduces Old English -ræden, including loss and variation of the final weak syllable and regular orthographic simplification.
- MEANING
- The older condition, status, estimation, or rule element survives as a narrowing and increasingly fossilized condition-forming suffix.
Middle English Dictionary Editors · Elizabeth Closs Traugott · Merriam-Webster Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 1092 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 032 EDGES
STEP 03inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English kinrede continues late Old English cynræden / cynrēde through normal replacement of Old English c and y spellings, reduction of the second element, and loss of inherited inflection; the d-bearing variant is later.
- MEANING
- Old English kinship and kin-conditioned state develops the medieval family, lineage, blood-relations, nation, and collective-relatives field.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Middle English Dictionary Editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 1073 ↗ STEP 03compound componentestablished
- SOUND
- The second element of hate-rede is Middle English -rede / -reden; this is morphological decomposition, not whole-word sound change.
- MEANING
- The condition or state suffix turns hate into the state or condition of hate.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Elizabeth Closs Traugott3 CITATIONSEDGE 1091 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 042 EDGES
STEP 04historical continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English kinrede loses the final weak syllable inherited from -ræden, while an intrusive d develops between n and r and becomes fixed in kindred. The edge preserves kindrede as a medieval variant without treating kind as a component.
- MEANING
- The family, lineage, blood-relation, and kinship noun continues; attributive use produces the adjective for shared ancestry and later for related origin, nature, or character.
Elizabeth Closs Traugott · Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 1072 ↗ STEP 04historical continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English hatrede / hatreden loses the final suffixal syllable while the reduced -red spelling and /rɪd/ pronunciation become fixed in modern English.
- MEANING
- The medieval state or condition of hate continues as intense animosity, hostility, or extreme dislike; countable hatreds later names particular hostilities.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Anatoly Liberman3 CITATIONSEDGE 1084 ↗ “Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
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