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35,981 English word records · 45,491 etymology sections in this online subset
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
No reviewed record in this collection contains “acquire.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
openprobableposition text
When did exhume acquire the archival recovery metaphor?
The modern dictionary records the figurative sense, but the reviewed evidence does not date one secure semantic pivot.
openprobableposition text
Were hazzēn and hazzōn separate unrelated verbs?
That is not established. Dictionaries group both forms under the history of hassen, while corpus-wide scholarship shows that ēn verbs can acquire ōn double forms. The exact relationship for this lexeme still requires token-level paradigm study.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 3GRADE Aranked reveal
Robot named forced labor before machinery.
The machine word begins in Czech robota: compulsory labor, corvée, or drudgery.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
No reviewed record in this collection contains “acquire.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
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