NODE / 0266attestedMiddle English
lesson / lessoun
a reading, assigned text, or unit of instruction
- DATE
- Middle English, 13th–15th centuries
- SENSE
- reading or instruction
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:lesson lessoun:attested:sense:reading-or-instruction
The written and instructional senses coexist in medieval English.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
1 02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
1 03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
1 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 01historical continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Modern lesson continues the Middle English form with spelling stabilization.
- MEANING
- A reading or assigned text expands into instruction and then something learned from experience.
“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
0 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
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