NODE / 0900attestedMiddle English
lof
TRANSLITERATION lof
loaf of bread
- DATE
- Middle English
- SENSE
- bread loaf
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:lof:attested:sense:bread-loaf
Merriam-Webster prints lof as the Middle English stage.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERcontinuationestablished
Old English · Old English · bread loafhlāf
loaf; bread
- SOUND
- Middle English lof continues Old English hlāf through the recorded English sound and spelling history.
- MEANING
- Bread and loaf senses remain continuous.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
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
- 1
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 1
- DEEPEST PATH
- 1
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English lof develops into modern loaf with later spelling and pronunciation stabilization.
- MEANING
- The shaped bread mass remains the lexical center.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 898 ↗ “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