NODE / 0942attestedOld English
brȳd
TRANSLITERATION brȳd
bride
- DATE
- Old English
- SENSE
- bride component
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:3:bryd:attested:sense:bride-component
The first component of brȳdguma; its deeper ancestry is not supplied by the reviewed bridegroom sources.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
*THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.No securely reviewed ancestor extends beyond this node. 2 evidence paths stop at this boundary.
INSPECT 2 CITED BOUNDARY CLAIMS
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTcompound componentestablished
Old English · Old English · bride man compoundbrȳdguma
bridegroom; bride-man
- SOUND
- Old English brȳdguma contains brȳd, bride, as its first lexical component beside guma, man.
- MEANING
- The bride component supplies the marriage relation in the compound.
- CHRONOLOGY
- A morphological relation inside Old English.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
DESCENDANTinheritanceestablished
Middle English · Middle English · newly married womanbride
bride; wife
- SOUND
- Middle English bride continues Old English brȳd.
- MEANING
- Bride, wife, and spouse senses remain in the historical field.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · Joseph Bosworth and Thomas Northcote Toller
- 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
- 6
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 6
- DEEPEST PATH
- 4
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 2
HISTORICAL STEP 012 EDGES
STEP 01compound componentestablished
- SOUND
- Old English brȳdguma contains brȳd, bride, as its first lexical component beside guma, man.
- MEANING
- The bride component supplies the marriage relation in the compound.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 940 ↗ STEP 01inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English bride continues Old English brȳd.
- MEANING
- Bride, wife, and spouse senses remain in the historical field.
Merriam-Webster Editors · Joseph Bosworth and Thomas Northcote Toller2 CITATIONSEDGE 959 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES
STEP 02continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English bridegome continues Old English brȳdguma with regular reduction of the final inflection.
- MEANING
- Bride-man remains the compound meaning.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 920 ↗ STEP 02continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English bride continues into modern bride with regular spelling and pronunciation history.
- MEANING
- The newly married or about-to-marry woman remains the lexical center.
HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03folk etymological remodelingestablished
- SOUND
- Opaque Middle English bridegome is remodeled as brydegrome under the influence of the familiar word groom.
- MEANING
- The bride-man meaning remains while speakers reinterpret the second element.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 919 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 041 EDGE
STEP 04continuationestablished
- SOUND
- The Scots Middle English spelling brydegrome stabilizes as modern bridegroom.
- MEANING
- The marrying-man meaning continues after the compound is reinterpreted.
“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