NODE / 0482attestedMiddle English
legible
capable of being read
- DATE
- Middle English, late 14th–15th century
- SENSE
- readable
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:legible:attested:sense:readable
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERborrowingestablished
Latin · Late Latin · able to be readlegibilis
that can be read
- SOUND
- Middle English legible borrows Late Latin legibilis with English phonological adaptation.
- MEANING
- The ability to be read remains the inherited meaning.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
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
- 1
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 1
- DEEPEST PATH
- 1
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01historical continuationestablished
- SOUND
- The Middle English learned form stabilizes as modern legible with later English stress and vowel development.
- MEANING
- Literal readability remains primary while discernibility and understandability become figurative extensions.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 448 ↗ “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