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NODE / 0391attestedSpanish

pocho / poncho

faded, discolored; proposed source family for the garment word

DATE
historical Spanish candidate
SENSE
faded adjective candidate
FAMILY
Indo-European / Italic · Romance · Ibero-Romance
CANONICAL KEY
node:44:pocho:attested:sense:faded-adjective-candidate

Graph-only competing source candidate. RAE proposes a Spanish-internal route, while Iwasaki argues from the early record; neither source makes this the uncontested parent.

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No reviewed parent edge extends beyond this canonical node.

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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

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DESCENDANTcompeting derivationproposed
Spanish · American Spanish from at least 1530 · garment

poncho

poncho; sleeveless blanket-like garment

SOUND
The Spanish-internal proposal compares garment poncho with a faded or discolored adjective in the pocho / poncho family; the exact formation and chronology remain debated.
MEANING
A color or condition adjective is proposed to have become the name of a plain or faded garment.
CHRONOLOGY
A 1530 Spanish-language garment record is central to the argument.
SCHOLAR
RAE editors · Fernando Iwasaki reviewing Morínigo and Coromines
CONFIDENCE
proposed — The early Spanish record challenges a one-way Mapuche derivation, but the competing analysis is not treated as closed.
Poncho — Word HistorychallengesWord History — from Mapuche

Documents the competing Mapuche analysis.

ORIGINAL ↗
Poncho — Diccionario de la lengua españolasupportsponcho¹ — quizá de po[n]cho “descolorido”

States the current Spanish-internal proposal.

ORIGINAL ↗
La universalidad del español: encuentros y contactos lingüísticossupportsponcho discussion — 1530 record and Spanish-origin argument

Documents the historical argument for Spanish origin.

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OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 362 ↗
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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.

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DEEPEST PATH
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MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
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poncho2 connected nodes
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01competing derivationproposed
Spanishpocho / poncho→Spanish · American Spanish from at least 1530ponchoponcho; sleeveless blanket-like garment
SOUND
The Spanish-internal proposal compares garment poncho with a faded or discolored adjective in the pocho / poncho family; the exact formation and chronology remain debated.
MEANING
A color or condition adjective is proposed to have become the name of a plain or faded garment.
RAE editors · Fernando Iwasaki reviewing Morínigo and Coromines3 CITATIONSEDGE 362 ↗
Poncho — Word History · Word History — from Mapuche ↗Poncho — Diccionario de la lengua española · poncho¹ — quizá de po[n]cho “descolorido” ↗La universalidad del español: encuentros y contactos lingüísticos · poncho discussion — 1530 record and Spanish-origin argument ↗
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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EDITORIAL REUSE

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