NODE / 0476attestedAnglo-French
prologue
a prologue or prefatory discourse
- DATE
- Anglo-French period
- SENSE
- introductory speech
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Romance
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:12:prologue:attested:sense:introductory-speech
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
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 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English prolog adopts Anglo-French prologue with English spelling adaptation.
- MEANING
- The prefatory discourse meaning remains stable.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02historical continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English prolog develops the modern -ue spelling while retaining the initial pro- and final log sequence.
- MEANING
- The prefatory speech becomes any introductory section and later any preceding event.
Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 440 ↗ “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