NODE / 0765attestedMiddle English
realme
TRANSLITERATION realme
kingdom, governed domain
- DATE
- Middle English
- SENSE
- kingdom domain
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:realme:attested:sense:kingdom-domain
The form reflects both inherited transmission and analogical influence from royal.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERborrowingestablished
Old French · Old French · kingdom domainreiame
kingdom, government
- SOUND
- Middle English realme continues an altered Old French reiame form.
- MEANING
- Government or kingdom remains the central domain sense.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Analogical influence from royal is represented on a separate canonical edge.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
GO DEEPERanalogical influenceestablished
Old French · Old French · monarch adjectivereial
royal
- SOUND
- Middle English realme was reshaped under the influence of Old French reial, royal.
- MEANING
- The kingdom noun becomes more visibly associated with the royal adjective without descending from it.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Medieval analogical influence; no single reshaping date is asserted.
- SCHOLAR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
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
- 1
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 1
- DEEPEST PATH
- 1
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Modern realm continues Middle English realme through spelling reduction.
- MEANING
- Kingdom broadens to any domain or sphere.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 763 ↗ “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