NODE / 0401reconstructedProto-Indo-European
*(s)kend-
to shine or make shine
- DATE
- Proto-Indo-European prehistory
- SENSE
- shine make shine
- FAMILY
- Indo-European
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:6:skend:reconstructed:sense:shine-make-shine
Merriam-Webster reconstructs this root behind the Latin brightness family; the older *kand- analysis remains a separate proposed route in the graph.
*This form is reconstructed by comparison. It is not directly attested in this exact written form.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
*THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.No securely reviewed ancestor extends beyond this node. 2 evidence paths stop at this boundary.
INSPECT 2 CITED BOUNDARY CLAIMS
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTinheritanceprobable
Latin · Latin antiquitycandēre
to shine; glow; be white
- SOUND
- Latin candēre is derived from a zero-grade stative formation of reconstructed *(s)kend-.
- MEANING
- Shining, gleaming, and whiteness retain the reconstructed brightness core.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster editors
- CONFIDENCE
- probable — The form is reconstructed and the graph also preserves an older proposed *kand- route.
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
- 9
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 9
- DEEPEST PATH
- 4
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 3
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01inheritanceprobable
- SOUND
- Latin candēre is derived from a zero-grade stative formation of reconstructed *(s)kend-.
- MEANING
- Shining, gleaming, and whiteness retain the reconstructed brightness core.
HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES
STEP 02derivationestablished
- SOUND
- candidus belongs to the candēre family of shining and whiteness.
- MEANING
- Physical brightness and whiteness extended to clarity and unblemished quality.
STEP 02derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Latin candor is an abstract noun in -or formed beside candēre.
- MEANING
- The act or state of shining yields brightness, radiance, and whiteness.
Merriam-Webster · Latin lexicography2 CITATIONSEDGE 374 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 033 EDGES
STEP 03derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Latin candidātus is built from candidus and identifies the person clothed in shining white.
- MEANING
- The white-clad Roman office-seeker became the lexical category for a person seeking office.
Corpus of Latin Dictionaries editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 31 ↗ STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle French candide was borrowed from Latin candidus with regular Romance adaptation.
- MEANING
- Latin brightness and whiteness support French brilliance and favorable disposition.
STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- French candeur was borrowed from Latin candor with Romance sound and spelling adaptation.
- MEANING
- Radiance, whiteness, and favorable disposition support purity, innocence, and later frankness.
HISTORICAL STEP 043 EDGES
STEP 04borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English borrowed the learned Latin office term with regular adaptation of ending and stress.
- MEANING
- An office-seeker remained an office-seeker, later broadening to any person under selection.
Merriam-Webster · CNRTL editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 30 ↗ STEP 04borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English borrowed the adjective through Middle French candide with spelling and pronunciation adapted to English.
- MEANING
- Brightness, favor, and unblemished quality develop toward openness, fairness, and frank expression.
STEP 04borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English candor was borrowed through French candeur with English spelling and pronunciation.
- MEANING
- Brightness and unstained purity become frankness and honest expression.
“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.That is expected for a reconstructed form: the node is inferred from comparison, not quoted from a surviving occurrence.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
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