NODE / 0716attestedMiddle English
trewe
TRANSLITERATION trewe
agreement, treaty, pledge
- DATE
- Middle English
- SENSE
- agreement pledge
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:trewe:attested:sense:agreement-pledge
The plural trewes is analyzed from this singular agreement noun.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished
Old English · Old English · pledge fidelitytrēow
pledge, fidelity
- SOUND
- Middle English trewe continues Old English trēow in the pledge and fidelity sense.
- MEANING
- A pledge or agreement continues the older fidelity noun.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTinflectional reanalysisestablished
Middle English · Middle English · agreements pluraltrewes
agreements, pledges
- SOUND
- Middle English plural trewes is formed on singular trewe and later supplies the English singular truce.
- MEANING
- Multiple agreements or pledges furnish the form reanalyzed for one suspension of hostilities.
- CHRONOLOGY
- The cited dictionary explicitly marks trewes as plural.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
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HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01inflectional reanalysisestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English plural trewes is formed on singular trewe and later supplies the English singular truce.
- MEANING
- Multiple agreements or pledges furnish the form reanalyzed for one suspension of hostilities.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 702 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Modern singular truce continues Middle English trewes after the inherited plural was reanalyzed as a singular form.
- MEANING
- Agreements or pledges specialize as a temporary suspension of hostilities.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 701 ↗ “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
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05EDITORIAL REUSE
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