NODE / 0960attestedMiddle English
bride
TRANSLITERATION bride
bride; wife
- DATE
- Middle English
- SENSE
- newly married woman
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:bride:attested:sense:newly-married-woman
The Middle English continuation of Old English brȳd.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished
Old English · Old English · bride componentbrȳd
bride
- 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
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 bride continues into modern bride with regular spelling and pronunciation history.
- MEANING
- The newly married or about-to-marry woman remains the lexical center.
“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