NODE / 0655attestedOld English
word
TRANSLITERATION word
word, utterance, speech
- DATE
- Old English
- SENSE
- meaningful language unit
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:3:word:attested:sense:meaningful-language-unit
Both Merriam-Webster and American Heritage identify the Old English stage.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
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
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English word continues Old English word with no donor-language substitution.
- MEANING
- Word, utterance, and expression remain central.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 625 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Modern English preserves the inherited spelling word while pronunciation continues the history of English vowel and rhotic systems.
- MEANING
- The core linguistic-unit sense continues alongside utterance, promise, news, command, and technical extensions.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 624 ↗ “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