CANONICAL LANGUAGE GRAPH
TRACE A WORD ↗a ball of thread or yarn
ANCESTRAL EDGES
ball, sphere, ball of thread
DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
a fact that guides a solution
a ball of thread; a guiding clue; a nautical corner, loop, or line
Documents the surviving literal and nautical senses and the Middle English to Old English line.
ORIGINAL ↗Independently publishes the Middle English and Old English ancestry.
ORIGINAL ↗TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
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.
“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
The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
EDITORIAL REUSE