NODE / 0192attestedMiddle English
Decembre
the last month of the year
- DATE
- Middle English
- SENSE
- calendar month
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:decembre:attested:sense:calendar-month
Merriam-Webster allows Old English or Anglo-French transmission from Latin.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERborrowing via competing routesprobable
Latin · Latin antiquity · tenth monthDecember
the tenth month
- SOUND
- The Latin month name reaches Middle English through Old English or Anglo-French transmission; the exact route is not resolved by the reviewed source.
- MEANING
- The named tenth month is retained as the last/twelfth month after calendar reordering.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Middle English period.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- probable — Merriam-Webster explicitly gives Old English or Anglo-French as alternatives rather than selecting one.
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
- 1
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 1
- DEEPEST PATH
- 1
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01orthographic continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English Decembre is respelled December under renewed Latin influence and standardized capitalization.
- MEANING
- The month identity remains while its calendar position is twelfth.
“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