SO supplies the current noun, inflection, accent notation, definition, examples, and history. SAOB documents spellings from 1522 onward, military collective use, figurative nonhuman enemies, and the historical Devil branch.
Old Swedish fiande and fiände continue through early-modern fiende, fiände, fyende, fynde, fiend, and related spellings before modern fiende becomes standard. The record displays changing vowel notation, glide representation, endings, and orthography rather than one universal intermediate spelling.
MEANING
Enemy or opponent remains central. Older Devil usage becomes historical, while military collective and figurative nonhuman uses remain available in the modern noun.
CHRONOLOGY
Old Swedish evidence from the early 1300s through early-modern and current Swedish.
SCHOLAR
Svenska Akademiens ordboksredaktion
CONFIDENCE
established — SO and SAOB publish the form sequence and semantic continuity. The dictionaries do not assign every spelling to one uniform sound change or dialect.
No reviewed descendants currently reuse this node. Absence describes the graph, not the entire history of the form.
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TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
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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
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REVIEWED EDGES
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DEEPEST PATH
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MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
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No downstream edge has cleared review for this node. This is a graph-coverage statement, not a claim that the historical form produced nothing.
“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.