NODE / 0780attestedAnglo-French
directer
TRANSLITERATION directer
direct, guide
- DATE
- Anglo-French
- SENSE
- guide direct verb
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Romance
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:12:directer:attested:sense:guide-direct-verb
Merriam-Webster gives Anglo-French directer in the verb and adverb history.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
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
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English directen was borrowed through Anglo-French directer in the verb route.
- MEANING
- To guide or point crosses into English.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Modern direct continues Middle English directen with loss of the infinitive ending and stabilized modern spelling.
- MEANING
- Guiding, aiming, ordering, straightness, and immediacy expand across verb, adjective, and adverb functions.
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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