NODE / 1098attestedMiddle English
-rede / -reden
TRANSLITERATION -rede / -reden
a state, condition, quality, status, estimation, rule, or relation to X
- DATE
- Middle English
- SENSE
- condition state suffix
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:rede-reden:attested:sense:condition-state-suffix
Graph-only attested component. The wider suffix record includes hatrede and kinrede and preserves fuller -reden forms.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished
Old English · Old English · condition status affixoid-ræden
condition, state, estimation, rule, or relation to the first compound element
- 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.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Old English into Middle English.
- SCHOLAR
- Middle English Dictionary Editors · Elizabeth Closs Traugott · Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The sources agree on the Old English ancestry and declining medieval productivity.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTcompound componentestablished
Middle English · Middle English · hate condition compoundhatrede / hatreden / hateredyn
hatred; the state or condition of hate
- 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.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Middle English compound analysis.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Elizabeth Closs Traugott
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The dictionaries directly segment the word and Traugott places it in the X-RÆDEN schema.
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01compound 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 021 EDGE
STEP 02historical 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.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE