CANONICAL LANGUAGE GRAPH
TRACE A WORD ↗proposed predecessor of girle
A question-marked reconstruction in the Middle English Dictionary, challenged by the broader origin-unknown judgment.
This form is reconstructed by comparison. It is not directly attested in this exact written form.
ANCESTRAL EDGES
No securely reviewed ancestor extends beyond this node. 1 evidence path stops at this boundary.
No securely promoted ancestor is currently known beyond the tentative reconstructed form.
DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
child or young person of either sex; girl
TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
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.
“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
That is expected for a reconstructed form: the node is inferred from comparison, not quoted from a surviving occurrence.
EDITORIAL REUSE