NODE / 0855attestedOld English
hūsbōnda
TRANSLITERATION hūsbōnda
master of a house; householder
- DATE
- Old English
- SENSE
- householder master
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:3:husbonda:attested:sense:householder-master
A borrowing from Old Norse rather than a native Old English kinship formation.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
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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
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English husbonde continues Old English hūsbōnda.
- MEANING
- The borrowed householder noun develops the spouse sense in English.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 857 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English husbonde develops into modern husband with reduction of the final vowel and stabilized spelling.
- MEANING
- Householder and master senses narrow toward the married-man relation.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 856 ↗ “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
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05EDITORIAL REUSE
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