NODE / 0966attestedMiddle English
deie
TRANSLITERATION deie
woman in charge of milking and making butter and cheese
- DATE
- Middle English
- SENSE
- woman managing milk
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:deie:attested:sense:woman-managing-milk
The human occupational base behind the place noun.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
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02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTderivational baseestablished
Anglo-French · Anglo-French · milk production placedeyerie
dairy; milk-production place
- SOUND
- Anglo-French deyerie is formed on Middle English deie beside Anglo-French -erie.
- MEANING
- The woman responsible for milk production becomes the base for the place where that work occurs.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The English base entering an Anglo-French formation makes this more than a one-way donor chain.
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
- 3
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 3
- DEEPEST PATH
- 3
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01derivational baseestablished
- SOUND
- Anglo-French deyerie is formed on Middle English deie beside Anglo-French -erie.
- MEANING
- The woman responsible for milk production becomes the base for the place where that work occurs.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English deierie reflects Anglo-French deyerie or daerie with English orthographic adaptation.
- MEANING
- The place of milk handling remains the center.
HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English deierie develops into modern dairy through vowel, spelling, and stress standardization.
- MEANING
- A milk-production place expands to the products and industry associated with it.
“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