NODE / 0803attestedMiddle English
man
TRANSLITERATION man
human being; man
- DATE
- Middle English
- SENSE
- human person
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:man:attested:sense:human-person
Continues the Old English human-person word.
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
- 1
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 1
- DEEPEST PATH
- 1
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Modern man continues Middle English man with stabilized spelling and pronunciation.
- MEANING
- A broad human-being word develops an increasingly salient adult-male sense.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 808 ↗ “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