NODE / 0771attestedMiddle English
riche
TRANSLITERATION riche
wealthy, powerful, rich
- DATE
- Middle English
- SENSE
- wealthy powerful
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:riche:attested:sense:wealthy-powerful
American Heritage reports both Old French and Old English inputs.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished
Old English · Old English · strong powerful adjectiverīce
strong, powerful
- SOUND
- Middle English riche continues Old English rīce while also receiving French-family influence represented separately.
- MEANING
- Strong and powerful develop toward wealthy and abundant.
- CHRONOLOGY
- American Heritage reports both Old English and Old French inputs.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
GO DEEPERborrowing influenceestablished
Old French · Old French · wealthy adjectiveriche
rich, wealthy
- SOUND
- Old French riche reinforces Middle English riche alongside the inherited Old English branch.
- MEANING
- The French wealth adjective converges with English power-and-wealth material.
- SCHOLAR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The source reports both inputs but does not quantify their relative contribution.
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 rich continues Middle English riche through English spelling and sound history.
- MEANING
- Power and wealth broaden across abundance, value, color, flavor, and intensity.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 770 ↗ “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