SOUND: English adverb regularizes the Middle English final vowel while retaining the learned compound.
MEANING: The grammatical class remains a modifier category whose actual scope is wider than verbs alone.
CHRONOLOGY: First known use is reported in the fifteenth century.
SCHOLAR: Merriam-Webster Editors
CONFIDENCE: established

Adverb — Definition, Word History, and First Known UsesupportsDefinitions, Word History, and First Known Use

Supplies the English form, modern modifier scope, and fifteenth-century horizon.

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OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 643 ↗

TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

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UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES: 1
REVIEWED EDGES: 1
DEEPEST PATH: 1
MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED: 1

adverb1 connected node

HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE

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Middle Englishadverbe→Present-Day English · 15th century–todayadverba word class modifying verbs, adjectives, adverbs, phrases, clauses, or sentences

SOUND: English adverb regularizes the Middle English final vowel while retaining the learned compound.
MEANING: The grammatical class remains a modifier category whose actual scope is wider than verbs alone.

Merriam-Webster Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 643 ↗

Adverb — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Definitions, Word History, and First Known Use ↗

“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.

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