NODE / 0911attestedMiddle English
humble
TRANSLITERATION humble
low; modest; submissive
- DATE
- Middle English
- SENSE
- low modest adjective
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:humble:attested:sense:low-modest-adjective
The English borrowing retains the French spelling.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERborrowingestablished
Anglo-French · Anglo-French · low modest adjectivehumble
low; humble
- SOUND
- Middle English adopts Anglo-French humble with English phonological adaptation.
- MEANING
- The low and modest senses are retained.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The source identifies the donor language but does not supply one exact borrowing event.
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 humble continues into modern humble with spelling stability and later pronunciation standardization.
- MEANING
- Low rank, modesty, and lack of pretension remain in the semantic field.
“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