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CANONICAL LANGUAGE GRAPH

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NODE / 0345attestedMalayalam

മാങ്ങ

TRANSLITERATION māṅṅaPRONUNCIATION /maːŋːa/

mango fruit

DATE
Malayalam
SENSE
mango fruit
FAMILY
Dravidian / Southern Dravidian
CANONICAL KEY
node:50:māṅṅa:attested:sense:mango-fruit

Merriam-Webster says Portuguese manga is probably from Malayalam māṅṅa; Gundert independently records the Malayalam fruit word.

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ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

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THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.

No securely reviewed ancestor extends beyond this node. 1 evidence path stops at this boundary.

INSPECT 1 CITED BOUNDARY CLAIM
GO DEEPERknowledge boundaryboundary
Beyond secure reconstruction · before Malayalam māṅṅa · mango deep boundary

UNKNOWN

No deeper ancestor is promoted from the reviewed sources.

SOUND
No deeper Dravidian reconstruction is promoted from the reviewed sources.
MEANING
The reviewed route reaches Malayalam and stops.
SCHOLAR
SET-U editorial boundary
CONFIDENCE
boundary — The boundary distinguishes an attested source word from deeper comparisons not reviewed in this tranche.
Mango — Word HistorycontextWord History — endpoint at Malayalam māṅṅa

Defines the reviewed horizon at which this path stops.

ORIGINAL ↗
OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 328 ↗
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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

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DESCENDANTproposed borrowingprobable
Portuguese · Portuguese · mango fruit

manga

mango

SOUND
Portuguese manga closely reflects Malayalam māṅṅa; the nasal and final vowel were accommodated in Portuguese spelling.
MEANING
The mango-fruit referent remained stable.
CHRONOLOGY
Indian Ocean contact before the English record; no invented transfer year.
SCHOLAR
Merriam-Webster Editors · Hermann Gundert
CONFIDENCE
probable — Merriam-Webster says “probably from Malayalam”; Gundert independently attests the Malayalam form.
Mango — Word HistorysupportsWord History — Portuguese manga, probably from Malayalam māṅṅa

Explicitly gives the probable Malayalam source.

ORIGINAL ↗
A Malayalam and English Dictionary — māṅṅasupportsentry മാങ്ങ / māṅṅa

Independently attests the Malayalam fruit word.

ORIGINAL ↗
OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 327 ↗
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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
2
REVIEWED EDGES
2
DEEPEST PATH
2
MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
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mango2 connected nodes
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01proposed borrowingprobable
Malayalamമാങ്ങ→Portuguese · Portuguesemangamango
SOUND
Portuguese manga closely reflects Malayalam māṅṅa; the nasal and final vowel were accommodated in Portuguese spelling.
MEANING
The mango-fruit referent remained stable.
Merriam-Webster Editors · Hermann Gundert2 CITATIONSEDGE 327 ↗
Mango — Word History · Word History — Portuguese manga, probably from Malayalam māṅṅa ↗A Malayalam and English Dictionary — māṅṅa · entry മാങ്ങ / māṅṅa ↗
HISTORICAL STEP 021 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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03mangoമാങ്ങ · established