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CANONICAL LANGUAGE GRAPH

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NODE / 0385attestedNavajo / Diné bizaad

hooghan

home, house, dwelling

DATE
Navajo historical and modern record
SENSE
dine dwelling
FAMILY
Na-Dene / Athabaskan · Southern Athabaskan
CANONICAL KEY
node:64:hooghan:attested:sense:dine-dwelling

The community lexicon stresses home as well as the traditional architectural form.

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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
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Beyond secure reconstruction · before the reviewed Navajo form

UNKNOWN

No deeper Athabaskan reconstruction is promoted in this dossier.

SOUND
The reviewed sources establish hooghan but do not provide a specialist comparative Athabaskan reconstruction.
MEANING
The graph stops at the living Navajo word rather than promoting an unsourced internal split.
SCHOLAR
SET-U editorial boundary
CONFIDENCE
boundary
Hogan — Word HistorysupportsEtymology stops at Navajo hooghan

No deeper comparative reconstruction is supplied.

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OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 358 ↗
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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

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DESCENDANTborrowingestablished
Present-Day English · 1871–today · dine dwelling

hogan

a traditional Diné dwelling; the borrowed English term

SOUND
English hogan anglicizes Navajo hooghan, shortening the long vowel and regularizing the consonant and unstressed ending.
MEANING
A Diné home or dwelling term becomes the English label for the traditional structure.
CHRONOLOGY
English first-known-use report: 1871.
SCHOLAR
Merriam-Webster · Navajo Word of the Day editors
CONFIDENCE
established
Hogan — Word HistorysupportsWord History — Navajo hooghan

Identifies the Navajo source.

ORIGINAL ↗
Hooghan — home or housesupportshooghan — home or house

Community lexicon documents the living Navajo form and cultural frame.

ORIGINAL ↗
OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 357 ↗
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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
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MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
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hogan1 connected node
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
Navajo / Diné bizaadhooghan→Present-Day English · 1871–todayhogana traditional Diné dwelling; the borrowed English term
SOUND
English hogan anglicizes Navajo hooghan, shortening the long vowel and regularizing the consonant and unstressed ending.
MEANING
A Diné home or dwelling term becomes the English label for the traditional structure.
Merriam-Webster · Navajo Word of the Day editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 357 ↗
Hogan — Word History · Word History — Navajo hooghan ↗Hooghan — home or house · hooghan — home or house ↗

“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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02hoganhooghan · established