NODE / 0819attestedAnglo-French
masle
TRANSLITERATION masle
male
- DATE
- Anglo-French
- SENSE
- male noun adjective
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Romance
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:12:masle:attested:sense:male-noun-adjective
The older consonant remains visible in the Anglo-French form.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished
Latin · Latin · male diminutivemasculus
male; masculine
- SOUND
- Anglo-French masle continues Latin masculus through Romance sound change.
- MEANING
- The male noun and adjective continue through French.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTborrowingestablished
Middle English · Middle English · male sex classmale
male
- SOUND
- Middle English male was borrowed from Anglo-French masle or male.
- MEANING
- The noun and adjective cross into English.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · 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
- 3
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 3
- DEEPEST PATH
- 3
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 2
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English male was borrowed from Anglo-French masle or male.
- MEANING
- The noun and adjective cross into English.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 822 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Modern male continues Middle English male.
- MEANING
- The male sex-class meaning remains central.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 821 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03analogical influenceestablished
- SOUND
- The spelling female was remodeled under the influence of male.
- MEANING
- The words become visually paired without acquiring shared ancestry.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 842 ↗ “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