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NODE / 0338boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction

UNKNOWN

No securely reviewed deeper lexical ancestor is promoted.

DATE
before Nahuatl āhuacatl
SENSE
avocado deep boundary
FAMILY
unclassified
CANONICAL KEY
boundary:57:4

The trail stops at the documented Nahuatl polysemous form rather than inventing a derivational direction between its senses.

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ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

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THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.

No reviewed parent edge extends beyond this canonical node.

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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

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DESCENDANTknowledge boundaryboundary
Classical Nahuatl · Classical Nahuatl · fruit testicle polysemy

āhuacatl

avocado; testicle

SOUND
No deeper form or direction of derivation between the two Nahuatl senses is promoted from the reviewed sources.
MEANING
The dossier preserves the attested polysemy and stops before an unsupported origin story.
SCHOLAR
SET-U editorial boundary · Merriam-Webster Editors · RAE · ASALE editors
CONFIDENCE
boundary — A source word having two senses does not by itself establish which sense motivated the other.
Avocado — Word HistorycontextWord History — Nahuatl āhuacatl avocado, testicle

Supports the polysemy preserved at the evidence boundary without supplying a direction of semantic derivation.

ORIGINAL ↗
Aguacate — Diccionario de la lengua españolacontextEtymology line — ahuacatl fruit and testicle

Independently documents the two senses but no derivational direction.

ORIGINAL ↗
OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 322 ↗
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TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

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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
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REVIEWED EDGES
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DEEPEST PATH
3
MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
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aguacate2 connected nodesavocado3 connected nodes
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01knowledge boundaryboundary
Beyond secure reconstructionUNKNOWN→Classical Nahuatl · Classical Nahuatlāhuacatlavocado; testicle
SOUND
No deeper form or direction of derivation between the two Nahuatl senses is promoted from the reviewed sources.
MEANING
The dossier preserves the attested polysemy and stops before an unsupported origin story.
SET-U editorial boundary · Merriam-Webster Editors · RAE · ASALE editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 322 ↗
Avocado — Word History · Word History — Nahuatl āhuacatl avocado, testicle ↗Aguacate — Diccionario de la lengua española · Etymology line — ahuacatl fruit and testicle ↗
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
Classical Nahuatlāhuacatl→Spanish · Spanishaguacateavocado fruit or tree
SOUND
Spanish aguacate adapted Nahuatl āhuacatl to Spanish phonology and spelling.
MEANING
The avocado sense was carried into Spanish, while the source word’s testicle sense did not become the ordinary Spanish fruit meaning.
Merriam-Webster Editors · RAE · ASALE editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 321 ↗
Avocado — Word History · Word History — Etymology ↗Aguacate — Diccionario de la lengua española · Definition — Del náhuatl ahuacatl ↗Ahuacatl — Gran Diccionario Náhuatl · Ahuacatl entries and translations, including Molina 1571 ↗
HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE

“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.

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RECORDED EVIDENCE

ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

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NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.

The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.

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EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

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04avocadoUNKNOWN · established