NODE / 0020boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction
UNKNOWN
No secure older ancestor.
- DATE
- prehistoric
- SENSE
- default
- FAMILY
- unclassified
- CANONICAL KEY
- boundary:3:6
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
DESCENDANTknowledge boundaryboundary
Proto-Indo-European · c. 4500–2500 BCE*séh₂l-
salt
- SOUND
- The trail ends beyond the reconstructable salt root.
- MEANING
- The salt-to-pay semantic bridge also remains partly unknown.
- SCHOLAR
- Open research boundary
- CONFIDENCE
- boundary
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
- 9
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 9
- DEEPEST PATH
- 5
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 2
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01knowledge boundaryboundary
- SOUND
- The trail ends beyond the reconstructable salt root.
- MEANING
- The salt-to-pay semantic bridge also remains partly unknown.
HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES
STEP 02inheritanceprobable
- SOUND
- Latin sāl continues the inherited salt word through Italic development.
- MEANING
- Material salt; no wage sense is reconstructed at this stage.
STEP 02inheritanceprobable
- SOUND
- Proto-Germanic *saltom belongs to the Indo-European salt family represented as *séh₂l- in the existing dossier and *sal- in other references.
- MEANING
- The material salt meaning remains stable; no payment sense exists at the reconstructed stage.
Mallory & Adams · Etymonline · UT LRC editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 487 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 032 EDGES
STEP 03derivationestablished
- SOUND
- salārium is morphologically related to salārius “pertaining to salt,” from sāl.
- MEANING
- The precise bridge from salt to official compensation is not preserved.
Latin lexicography · Pliny2 CITATIONSEDGE 15 ↗ STEP 03inheritanceprobable
- SOUND
- Old English sealt regularly continues reconstructed Proto-Germanic *saltom.
- MEANING
- The material salt sense remains stable across Germanic.
HISTORICAL STEP 042 EDGES
STEP 04inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- A regular Romance continuation of Latin salārium.
- MEANING
- Official payment became general compensation.
Romance historical lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 14 ↗ STEP 04inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Old English sealt loses or reshapes inherited inflection while the stem stabilizes as Middle English salt.
- MEANING
- The condiment and preservative meaning remains central.
Merriam-Webster · UT LRC editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 485 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 052 EDGES
STEP 05borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- French stress and vowels were adapted into English.
- MEANING
- The word narrowed toward fixed regular compensation.
STEP 05historical continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English salt continues with stable spelling into modern English while pronunciation changes.
- MEANING
- The material sense remains while figurative savor, sailor, and chemical-class senses develop.
Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 484 ↗ “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