NODE / 1220attestedOld Swedish

fiande / fiände

TRANSLITERATION fiande / fiände

enemy or opponent; also the Devil in recorded medieval use

DATE: Old Swedish; recorded from the beginning of the 1300s
SENSE: enemy devil old swedish
FAMILY: Indo-European / North Germanic
CANONICAL KEY: node:87:fiande-fiande:attested:sense:enemy-devil-old-swedish

SO identifies fiande and fiände as Old Swedish forms and reports evidence from the beginning of the 1300s in Skåne-Lagen. Söderwall files Fiande under enemy and especially the Devil, with located edition excerpts. No medieval object was directly inspected.

ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

GO DEEPERinheritanceprobable

Proto-Germanic · Proto-Germanic reconstruction · enemy lexicalized participle

*fi(j)and-

lexicalized enemy formation from the hate verb’s present participle

SOUND: Old Swedish fiande or fiände reflects the North Germanic continuation of the inherited nd-agent formation, with branch vowel development, glide and consonant history, inflection, and scribal spelling represented by the recorded variants.
MEANING: The already lexicalized one-who-hates formation functions as enemy or opponent. A Devil sense is visible inside the attested Swedish branch and is not projected back into Proto-Germanic.
CHRONOLOGY: Proto-Germanic reconstruction into the medieval Swedish written record.
SCHOLAR: Svenska Akademiens ordboksredaktion · Elof Hellquist · Guus Kroonen
CONFIDENCE: probable — The Old Swedish record and cross-Germanic comparison support inheritance. The parent is reconstructed, and the dossier does not invent a written Proto-Norse or Proto-Swedish intermediate.

Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic — *fi(j)ēn- and *fi(j)and-contextp. 140, *fi(j)and- and Germanic descendants

Supplies the reconstructed parent and wider comparative set.

ORIGINAL ↗

Svensk ordbok — fiendesupportsHISTORY: Old Swedish fiande / fiände; Common Germanic; originally hatande

Places the Swedish forms in the inherited Germanic family and states the original participial force.

ORIGINAL ↗

Svenska Akademiens ordbok — FIENDEsupportsEtymology: fsv. fiande, fiände and Germanic cognate set

Publishes the Old Swedish forms, collateral descendants, hate-verb comparison, and formation parallel with frände.

ORIGINAL ↗

Svensk etymologisk ordbok — fiende, scan p. 135supportsp. 135, fiende from fsv. fiænde / fiande and Germanic cognates

Independently analyzes the Swedish noun as the branch continuation of the Germanic participial enemy formation.

ORIGINAL ↗

OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 1199 ↗

DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

DESCENDANThistorical continuationestablished

Swedish · modern Swedish record · enemy opponent hostile force swedish

fiende

enemy or opponent; a hostile person, state, force, or figurative threat

SOUND: 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.

Svensk ordbok — fiendesupportsHeadword, inflection, meaning, examples, and HISTORY

Publishes current fiende, Old Swedish fiande or fiände, early-1300s evidence, and modern semantic range.

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Svenska Akademiens ordbok — FIENDEsupportsHistorical spellings, senses 1–2, and dated examples

Documents the Old-to-modern spelling record and personal, collective, military, Devil, and figurative senses.

ORIGINAL ↗

OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 1198 ↗

TRANSITIVE 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: 1
REVIEWED EDGES: 1
DEEPEST PATH: 1
MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED: 1

fiende1 connected node

HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE

STEP 01historical continuationestablished

Old Swedishfiande / fiände→Swedish · modern Swedish recordfiendeenemy or opponent; a hostile person, state, force, or figurative threat

SOUND: 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.

Svenska Akademiens ordboksredaktion2 CITATIONSEDGE 1198 ↗

Svensk ordbok — fiende · Headword, inflection, meaning, examples, and HISTORY ↗Svenska Akademiens ordbok — FIENDE · Historical spellings, senses 1–2, and dated examples ↗

“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.

RECORDED EVIDENCE