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NODE / 0640attestedOld French

-al

TRANSLITERATION -al

adjective-forming suffix

DATE
Old French period
SENSE
adjective suffix
FAMILY
Indo-European / Romance
CANONICAL KEY
node:8:-al:attested:sense:adjective-suffix

A French transmission channel for English -al, ultimately from Latin -alis.

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ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

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DESCENDANTborrowingprobable
Present-Day English · Middle English–today · adjective suffix

-al

of, like, related to, or pertaining to

SOUND
Middle English receives the suffix through French formations.
MEANING
The adjective-forming function remains stable.
CHRONOLOGY
Middle English onward.
SCHOLAR
Douglas Harper
CONFIDENCE
probable — The source also allows direct Latin formation.
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TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

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.

UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
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REVIEWED EDGES
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DEEPEST PATH
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MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
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HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
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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NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.

The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.

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EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

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