NODE / 0880boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction
UNKNOWN
No securely promoted ancestor is currently known beyond the reviewed cattle root on this proposed route.
- DATE
- before the reviewed *gʷou- reconstruction
- SENSE
- boy proposed route boundary
- FAMILY
- unclassified
- CANONICAL KEY
- boundary:151:10
The existence of a deep trail does not upgrade the disputed first jump from boy to fetters.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
*THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.No reviewed parent edge extends beyond this canonical node.
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
- 9
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 9
- DEEPEST PATH
- 9
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01knowledge boundaryboundary
- SOUND
- No older form is promoted beyond reviewed *gʷou-.
- MEANING
- The proposed trail ends where the published cattle root ends.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Greek boûs reflects Proto-Indo-European *gʷou-.
- MEANING
- The ox, bull, and cow field continues at reconstructed depth.
Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 878 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Greek boeía, bovine or of an ox, is formed from boûs, ox or cow.
- MEANING
- The material name specializes the cattle word as ox hide.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 877 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 041 EDGE
STEP 04borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Latin bōia is traced to Greek boeía dorá, ox hide.
- MEANING
- An ox-hide material expression is proposed behind a restraining collar or yoke.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 876 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 051 EDGE
STEP 05borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Old French buie continues Latin bōia.
- MEANING
- The restraint noun crosses from Latin into French.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 875 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 061 EDGE
STEP 06derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Old French embuier is formed on buie, a fetter or shackle.
- MEANING
- The verb continues the restraint meaning of the noun.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 874 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 071 EDGE
STEP 07derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Old French embuié is the participial person-form of embuier, to fetter.
- MEANING
- A person in fetters is named from the restraining action.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 873 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 081 EDGE
STEP 08competing borrowingproposed
- SOUND
- Middle English boi has been compared with Old French embuié, a person in fetters.
- MEANING
- The servant or churl field is proposed to connect with a restrained person.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 872 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 091 EDGE
STEP 09continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English boi develops into modern boy with stabilized spelling.
- MEANING
- Male servant, churl, and young-male senses settle around the modern male-child center.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 871 ↗ “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