NODE / 0303attestedMiddle High German
liep
dear, beloved, pleasing
- DATE
- Middle High German
- SENSE
- dear beloved adjective
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:31:liep:attested:sense:dear-beloved-adjective
Duden identifies Middle High German liep as the immediate historical form.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished
Old High German · Old High German · dear beloved adjectiveliob
dear, beloved, pleasing
- SOUND
- Old High German liob develops into Middle High German liep with the inherited diphthong and High German obstruent pattern reflected in the historical spellings.
- MEANING
- The adjective remains centered on what is dear, beloved, or pleasing.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Old High German to Middle High German.
- SCHOLAR
- Dudenredaktion
- CONFIDENCE
- established — Duden publishes the immediate Old High German and Middle High German sequence.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANThistorical continuationestablished
German · Present-day German · dear beloved adjectivelieb
dear, beloved, kind, pleasant, welcome
- SOUND
- Middle High German liep continues into modern German lieb through regular final devoicing in pronunciation and later spelling standardization.
- MEANING
- The inherited field of dear, beloved, pleasing, and welcome remains productive, with later kind or well-behaved uses in particular contexts.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Middle High German to present-day German.
- SCHOLAR
- Dudenredaktion
- CONFIDENCE
- established — Duden explicitly supplies the Middle High German form and the modern adjective’s living senses.
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 01historical continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle High German liep continues into modern German lieb through regular final devoicing in pronunciation and later spelling standardization.
- MEANING
- The inherited field of dear, beloved, pleasing, and welcome remains productive, with later kind or well-behaved uses in particular contexts.
“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
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