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

female2 connected nodes

HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE

STEP 01borrowingestablished

Old Frenchfemele→Middle English · Middle Englishfemellefemale

SOUND: Middle English femelle continues Old French femele or femelle.
MEANING: The female noun crosses from French into English.

Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 815 ↗

Female — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Etymology: Middle English femel or femelle from Anglo-French femele or femelle ↗Female — American Heritage Dictionary · Etymology: Middle English femelle from Old French ↗

HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE

STEP 02analogical reshapingestablished

Middle Englishfemelle→Present-Day English · 14th century–todayfemaleof or relating to the female sex; a female individual

SOUND: Earlier femelle or femel was respelled female under the influence of male.
MEANING: The sex-class meaning continues while surface spelling creates a misleading resemblance.

Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 814 ↗

Female — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Word History: alteration of femel or femelle influenced by male ↗Female — American Heritage Dictionary · Etymology: alteration influenced by male ↗

“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

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.

EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

03femalefemele · established