NODE / 0353boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction
UNKNOWN
No unique donor variety or deeper reconstruction is promoted.
- DATE
- before the unresolved Eastern Algonquian donor
- SENSE
- moose source boundary
- FAMILY
- unclassified
- CANONICAL KEY
- boundary:61:3
Massachusett moos and Eastern Abenaki mos remain explicit related evidence, not falsely precise route nodes.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
*THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.No reviewed parent edge extends beyond this canonical node.
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 01knowledge boundaryboundary
- SOUND
- The donor variety and deeper reconstructed path are not promoted beyond the evidence reviewed here.
- MEANING
- The route stops rather than converting cognates into a false direct lineage.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02proposed borrowingprobable
- SOUND
- English moose reflects a closely matching Eastern Algonquian animal name such as moos or mos.
- MEANING
- The animal referent remained stable.
Merriam-Webster Editors · Canadian Language Museum2 CITATIONSEDGE 332 ↗ “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