-ālis
of, related to, pertaining to
- SOUND
- Old French -al continues Latin -alis through regular Romance loss of final syllables.
- MEANING
- The adjective-forming function remains stable.
- SCHOLAR
- Douglas Harper
- CONFIDENCE
- established
CANONICAL LANGUAGE GRAPH
TRACE A WORD ↗adjective-forming suffix
A French transmission channel for English -al, ultimately from Latin -alis.
ANCESTRAL EDGES
of, related to, pertaining to
DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
of, like, related to, or pertaining to
TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
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.
“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.
RECORDED EVIDENCE
The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
EDITORIAL REUSE