GO DEEPERborrowingestablished
Medieval Latin · Late and Medieval Latin · verb suffix-izāre
verb-forming suffix
- SOUND
- Old French adapts Late Latin -izare.
- MEANING
- The verb-forming function continues.
- SCHOLAR
- Douglas Harper
- CONFIDENCE
- established
CANONICAL LANGUAGE GRAPH
TRACE A WORD ↗-iser / -izer
TRANSLITERATION -iser / -izer
verb-forming suffix
- DATE
- Old French period
- SENSE
- verb suffix
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Romance
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:8:-iser-izer:attested:sense:verb-suffix
Old French transmission stage behind Middle English -ize.
011
ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
021
DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTborrowingestablished
Present-Day English · Middle English–today · verb suffix-ize
make, become, practice, or perform
- SOUND
- Middle English -ize follows Old French -iser and -izer.
- MEANING
- The verb-forming function continues.
- SCHOLAR
- Douglas Harper
- CONFIDENCE
- established
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TRANSITIVE 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
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
Old French-iser / -izer→Present-Day English · Middle English–today-izemake, become, practice, or perform
- SOUND
- Middle English -ize follows Old French -iser and -izer.
- MEANING
- The verb-forming function continues.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
Present-Day English-ize→Present-Day English · 1532–todayetymologizediscover, formulate, state, or study etymologies
- SOUND
- English adds productive -ize to etymology.
- MEANING
- The noun becomes an action or practice verb.
“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.
040
RECORDED 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.
050
EDITORIAL REUSE