NODE / 0267attestedAnglo-French
leçon
a reading or lesson
- DATE
- Anglo-French, c. 1066–1500
- SENSE
- reading
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Romance
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:12:lecon:attested:sense:reading
Anglo-French transmits the Late Latin reading noun.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERborrowingestablished
Latin · Late Latin · act of readinglectiō
a reading; act of reading
- SOUND
- Anglo-French leçon continues Late Latin lectiō through regular Romance sound and spelling development.
- MEANING
- An act or selection of reading remains the source of the lesson sense.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Late Latin to Anglo-French.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The source gives Late Latin lection-, lectio as the French source.
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
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English lesson or lessoun adapts Anglo-French leçon.
- MEANING
- The reading and instructional senses remain connected.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02historical 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
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