NODE / 0646attestedAncient Greek
-ιστής
TRANSLITERATION -istḗs
agent or person associated with an action
- DATE
- Ancient Greek
- SENSE
- person suffix
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Hellenic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:10:-istes:attested:sense:person-suffix
Greek composite person-forming suffix behind Latin -ista.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
*THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.No securely reviewed ancestor extends beyond this node. 1 evidence path stops at this boundary.
INSPECT 1 CITED BOUNDARY CLAIM
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
- 4
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 5
- DEEPEST PATH
- 3
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Latin -ista adapts Greek -istēs.
- MEANING
- The agent or adherent sense continues.
HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES
STEP 02competing borrowingproposed
- SOUND
- English also uses -ist in words formed directly on Latin -ista.
- MEANING
- The person-forming function continues.
STEP 02inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- French -iste continues Latin -ista.
- MEANING
- The person-forming function continues.
HISTORICAL STEP 032 EDGES
STEP 03derivational componentestablished
- SOUND
- English etymologist adds -ist to the discipline noun.
- MEANING
- The suffix creates the person or specialist label.
STEP 03borrowingprobable
- SOUND
- English receives -ist through French -iste in many learned formations.
- MEANING
- The agent and adherent function continues.
“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