NODE / 0846attestedOld English
hlāford
TRANSLITERATION hlāford
lord; master; loaf guardian
- DATE
- Old English
- SENSE
- loaf guardian compound
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:3:hlaford:attested:sense:loaf-guardian-compound
A compound whose loaf and guardian components are both modeled in the canonical graph.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERcompound componentestablished
Old English · Old English · bread loafhlāf
loaf; bread
- SOUND
- Old English hlāford contains hlāf, loaf or bread, as its first lexical component.
- MEANING
- The household title encodes provision through the loaf component beside guardian.
- CHRONOLOGY
- A morphological relation inside Old English.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
GO DEEPERcompound componentestablished
Old English · Old English · guardian keeperweard
guardian; keeper
- SOUND
- Old English hlāford contains weard as its guardian or keeper component.
- MEANING
- Guardian supplies the keeping role beside the provision symbolized by loaf.
- CHRONOLOGY
- A morphological relation inside Old English.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTcontinuationestablished
Middle English · Middle English · lord titleloverd
lord; master
- SOUND
- Middle English loverd continues Old English hlāford with phonological reduction.
- MEANING
- A household master term develops through medieval rank and title uses.
- 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
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English loverd continues Old English hlāford with phonological reduction.
- MEANING
- A household master term develops through medieval rank and title uses.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 849 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English loverd or lord reduces to modern lord, with loss of the unstressed medial vowel and stabilized spelling.
- MEANING
- The master and title senses continue while the compound becomes opaque.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 848 ↗ “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