NODE / 0117boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction
UNKNOWN
No deeper ancestor is presented as secure.
- DATE
- before the proposed Indo-European family
- SENSE
- default
- FAMILY
- unclassified
- CANONICAL KEY
- boundary:18:5
Evidence horizon.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
*THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.No reviewed parent edge extends beyond this canonical node.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
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
- 4
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 4
- DEEPEST PATH
- 4
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01knowledge boundaryboundary
- SOUND
- No deeper form is promoted beyond the proposed Indo-European base.
- MEANING
- The graph stops where the comparative evidence currently stops.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02derivationprobable
- SOUND
- Proto-Slavic *orbota is analyzed within the *orb- family with an abstract noun suffix; comparison reaches the Indo-European *h₃orbʰ- family.
- MEANING
- Transfer of social status, dependency, bereavement, slavery, and obligatory labor form a reconstructed semantic network—not a single literal definition.
Merriam-Webster · Slavic etymological lexicography2 CITATIONSEDGE 99 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03inheritanceprobable
- SOUND
- Czech robota continues the reconstructed Slavic form with loss of the initial vowel and regular West Slavic development.
- MEANING
- Obligatory work and drudgery preserve the inherited labor field.
Slavic etymological lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 98 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 041 EDGE
STEP 04creative coinageestablished
- SOUND
- Josef Čapek suggested robot from Czech robota; English received the coined form through Karel Čapek's R.U.R. and its translation.
- MEANING
- Compulsory human labor was reassigned to artificial workers, then generalized to automatic machines.
“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