NODE / 0642boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction
UNKNOWN
No deeper suffix ancestor is promoted.
- DATE
- before the reviewed Latin suffix analysis
- SENSE
- etymological al boundary
- FAMILY
- unclassified
- CANONICAL KEY
- boundary:graph:etymological-al
The affix branch ends at the reviewed source 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
- 7
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 8
- DEEPEST PATH
- 4
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 2
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01knowledge boundaryboundary
- SOUND
- No deeper unique source is promoted from the reviewed suffix entry.
- MEANING
- The branch stops before unsupported segmentation.
HISTORICAL STEP 023 EDGES
STEP 02competing borrowingproposed
- SOUND
- English also forms learned words directly on Latin -alis.
- MEANING
- The adjective-forming function remains stable.
STEP 02inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Old French -al continues Latin -alis through regular Romance loss of final syllables.
- MEANING
- The adjective-forming function remains stable.
STEP 02derivational componentestablished
- SOUND
- Latin verbalis visibly combines the verbum stem with relational -alis.
- MEANING
- The suffix turns word or verb into of or relating to words or verbs.
HISTORICAL STEP 033 EDGES
STEP 03derivational componentestablished
- SOUND
- The English adjective ends in productive -al under Merriam-Webster’s segmentation.
- MEANING
- The suffix marks relation or pertinence.
STEP 03borrowingprobable
- SOUND
- Middle English receives the suffix through French formations.
- MEANING
- The adjective-forming function remains stable.
STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English verbale borrows Late Latin verbalis with English adaptation of the final syllable.
- MEANING
- Of words or verbs enters English and later supports the spoken-rather-than-written contrast.
HISTORICAL STEP 041 EDGE
STEP 04continuationestablished
- SOUND
- English verbal regularizes the Middle English final vowel while preserving the learned base and suffix.
- MEANING
- The relational word sense continues while verb-related and spoken-language senses develop alongside it.
“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