NODE / 0896boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction

UNKNOWN

No securely promoted ancestor is currently known beyond the tentative reconstructed form.

DATE: before the proposed *gyrela reconstruction
SENSE: girl gyrela boundary
FAMILY: unclassified
CANONICAL KEY: boundary:graph:girl-gyrela-0065

The branch ends before the proposal is mistaken for attestation.

ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.

No reviewed parent edge extends beyond this canonical node.

DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

DESCENDANTknowledge boundaryboundary

Old English · proposed Old English form · proposed child predecessor

*gyrela

proposed predecessor of girle

SOUND: No older form is promoted beyond proposed *gyrela.
MEANING: The reconstructed predecessor remains an open hypothesis.
SCHOLAR: SET-U editorial boundary
CONFIDENCE: boundary — The branch is tentative from its first edge.

girle — Middle English DictionarysupportsQuestion mark on reconstructed predecessor

Defines the tentative branch limit.

ORIGINAL ↗

OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 895 ↗

TRANSITIVE 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: 1

girl2 connected nodes

HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE

STEP 01knowledge boundaryboundary

Beyond secure reconstructionUNKNOWN→Old English · proposed Old English form*gyrelaproposed predecessor of girle

SOUND: No older form is promoted beyond proposed *gyrela.
MEANING: The reconstructed predecessor remains an open hypothesis.

SET-U editorial boundary1 CITATIONEDGE 895 ↗

girle — Middle English Dictionary · Question mark on reconstructed predecessor ↗

HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE

STEP 02proposed inheritanceproposed

Old English*gyrela→Middle English · Middle Englishgirlechild or young person of either sex; girl

SOUND: Middle English girle has been derived from a reconstructed Old English *gyrela.
MEANING: The child or young-person field is projected backward only tentatively.

Middle English Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 894 ↗

Girl — American Heritage Dictionary · Etymology: origin unknown ↗girle — Middle English Dictionary · Etymology: question-marked Old English *gyrela ↗

HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE

STEP 03continuationestablished

Middle Englishgirle→Present-Day English · 14th century–todaygirlfemale child; young woman

SOUND: Middle English girle develops into modern girl with stabilized spelling and pronunciation.
MEANING: A child or young person of either sex narrows to a female child or young woman.

Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Middle English Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 869 ↗

Girl — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Word History: Middle English gurle or girle, young person of either sex ↗girle — Middle English Dictionary · Senses: child of either sex; girl or young woman ↗

“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

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.

EDITORIAL REUSE