NODE / 0930attestedOld English
dāg
TRANSLITERATION dāg
dough
- DATE
- Old English
- SENSE
- dough mass
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:3:dag:attested:sense:dough-mass
The inherited Old English noun.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished
Proto-Germanic · Proto-Germanic · dough germanic*daigaz
dough
- SOUND
- Old English dāg reflects reconstructed Proto-Germanic *daigaz.
- MEANING
- The kneadable mass meaning continues in the Germanic noun family.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTcontinuationestablished
Middle English · Middle English · dough massdogh
dough
- SOUND
- Middle English dogh continues Old English dāg through the recorded English sound and spelling history.
- MEANING
- The dough meaning is retained.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
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
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English dogh continues Old English dāg through the recorded English sound and spelling history.
- MEANING
- The dough meaning is retained.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 927 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English dogh develops into modern dough with later spelling stabilization while the inherited vowel history produces /oʊ/.
- MEANING
- The kneadable flour mass remains the lexical center; money is a later slang extension.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 926 ↗ “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