NODE / 0496boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction
UNKNOWN
No securely reviewed ancestor is promoted beyond *bher-.
- DATE
- before the reviewed *bher- horizon
- SENSE
- bher carry boundary
- FAMILY
- unclassified
- CANONICAL KEY
- boundary:canonical:bher-carry
The trail ends at the present comparative horizon.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
*THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.No reviewed parent edge extends beyond this canonical node.
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
- 6
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 6
- DEEPEST PATH
- 6
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01knowledge boundaryboundary
- SOUND
- No older form is promoted beyond the reviewed *bher- reconstruction.
- MEANING
- The carrying branch stops at its present comparative horizon.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Latin ferre continues the Indo-European *bher- carrying family through inherited Italic phonology and an irregular paradigm.
- MEANING
- The core carrying and bearing sense remains stable while Latin adds proposing, reporting, and enduring extensions.
American Heritage Indo-European Roots · Latin lexicography2 CITATIONSEDGE 462 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Latin lātio is analyzed through lātum / lātus, the suppletive participial material used with ferre.
- MEANING
- The general action of bearing or bringing specializes to proposing something for acceptance.
Merriam-Webster · CNRTL · Latin lexicography3 CITATIONSEDGE 461 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 041 EDGE
STEP 04compound componentestablished
- SOUND
- The lātio component is preserved inside legislatio alongside genitive legis; no sound change beyond compounding is asserted.
- MEANING
- Bearing or proposing supplies the action applied to a law.
Merriam-Webster · CNRTL · Etymonline editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 460 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 051 EDGE
STEP 05borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- French législation borrows Medieval or Late Latin legislatio with regular Romance adaptation.
- MEANING
- Proposal or bearing of a law develops into law-making authority and a body of laws.
HISTORICAL STEP 061 EDGE
STEP 06borrowingprobable
- SOUND
- English legislation borrows French législation with learned English stress and pronunciation.
- MEANING
- The making of laws and the resulting body of laws remain central while legislative-business senses develop.
“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