CANONICAL LANGUAGE GRAPH
TRACE A WORD ↗woman; wife
The first component of wīfman; its deeper origin remains uncertain in the reviewed headword sources.
ANCESTRAL EDGES
shame; modesty; woman comparison
No securely reviewed ancestor extends beyond this node. 3 evidence paths stop at this boundary.
No securely promoted ancestor is currently known beyond this component in the dossier spine.
Justifies stopping at Old English while retaining only a probable comparison.
ORIGINAL ↗Independently confirms the securely attested horizon without supplying a direct older parent.
ORIGINAL ↗No securely promoted direct ancestor is currently known beyond Old English wīf.
Justifies a boundary before the non-parental comparison.
ORIGINAL ↗Confirms that no secure direct ancestor is supplied.
ORIGINAL ↗No securely reconstructed direct ancestor is currently promoted beyond Old High German wīb.
Publishes cognacy without a directional ancestor.
ORIGINAL ↗Keeps the shared deep horizon explicitly unresolved.
ORIGINAL ↗DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
woman; female person
Publishes both compound components and their historical senses.
ORIGINAL ↗Independently supplies the compound structure.
ORIGINAL ↗woman; wife
Publishes the recorded English continuity.
ORIGINAL ↗Independently preserves the secure horizon.
ORIGINAL ↗TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
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.
“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.
RECORDED EVIDENCE
The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
EDITORIAL REUSE