NODE / 0776attestedOld French
reial
TRANSLITERATION reial
royal
- DATE
- Old French
- SENSE
- monarch adjective
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Romance
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:8:reial:attested:sense:monarch-adjective
American Heritage reports this royal adjective as an analogical influence on realme.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERborrowingestablished
Latin · Latin · kingly adjectiverēgālis
kingly, royal
- SOUND
- Old French reial continues Latin rēgālis through Romance sound and spelling history.
- MEANING
- The kingly or royal adjective remains monarch-centered.
- SCHOLAR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTanalogical influenceestablished
Middle English · Middle English · kingdom domainrealme
kingdom, governed domain
- 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
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 01analogical influenceestablished
- 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.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 778 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02continuationestablished
- 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