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aidEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English aide, eide, ayde, from Old French eide, aide, from aidier, from Latin adiūtō, adiūtāre (“to assist, help”). Cognates include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗aidEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English aiden, from Old French eider, aider, aidier, from Latin adiuto, frequentative of adiuvō (“assist”, verb).
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
noun · verbcontrarian claim
law
A binding rule, body of rules, or regular principle; a Scandinavian loan in Old English whose deepest secure family means lie or lay.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nouncontrarian claim
salary
Fixed compensation, inherited through French from a Latin term associated with salt.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗noun · verb · adjectivecontrarian claim
salt
Common salt and the wider family of saline substances and figurative savor; an inherited Germanic word in a deep Indo-European salt family.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗020
ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 6
openproposedposition text
Does the Éigse line certainly use cais once for love and once for hatred?
Not certainly. eDIL tentatively translates "mo chais is cais 'na agaid" as "my love ... is met by hatred(?)" and prints a question mark on the second reading.
openproposedposition text
Is the exact history of -ræden reducible to either ready or read?
The condition element is secure, and American Heritage assigns it through Germanic *rēdan to PIE *rē-dh-. But Merriam-Webster notes that Old English evidence can reflect a probable relationship to geræde “ready,” older analysis through rædan “advise,” and partial merger with ræding; Germanic *raidja- and *rēd- outcomes can be difficult to separate.
openproposedposition text
Can Latin lēx and Germanic law converge at *legh-?
Possibly, but uncertain. American Heritage presents Latin lēx from *leǵ- as one analysis and separately allows a possible “laid down” route from *legh-.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Were soldiers paid in salt?
No ancient source supports the familiar claim. Pliny notes only an undefined connection between salt and military honors or payments.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Does the salt relationship prove soldiers were paid in salt?
No. Salt and salary belong to the same comparative salt family, but the real lexical kinship does not establish the viral literal-payment story.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Did the word first name modern historical linguistics?
No. CNRTL’s earliest source-reported use around 1550 concerns compound names said to reveal their true sense; the current analytical sense is broader.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
RANK 183GRADE A−ranked reveal
Law and legal are semantic twins, not direct relatives.
Law comes from Scandinavian “what is laid down”; legal comes from Latin lēx. Only a possible, explicitly uncertain prehistoric route may reconnect them.
RANK 184GRADE Acontrarian claim
Roman soldiers were not paid in salt.
The salt relationship is real. The viral payroll story is not.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, Luke 6:27
hatan / hatan / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 186 — folio 143v, Luke 6:25–30witness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, Luke 6:27
fijan / fijan / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 186 — folio 143v, Luke 6:25–30witness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Codex Argenteus, John 15:18
fijan / fijan / early 6th-century witness, source-reported
Lemma fijan — Gothic dictionary and 42-token candidate inventorywitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Codex Argenteus, John 15:19
fijan / fijan / early 6th-century witness, source-reported
Lemma fijan — Gothic dictionary and 42-token candidate inventorywitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Codex Argenteus, John 15:24
fijan / fijan / early 6th-century witness, source-reported
Lemma fijan — Gothic dictionary and 42-token candidate inventorywitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Codex Argenteus, John 15:25
fijan / fijan / early 6th-century witness, source-reported
Lemma fijan — Gothic dictionary and 42-token candidate inventorywitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Codex Argenteus, John 17:14
fijan / fijan / early 6th-century witness, source-reported
Lemma fijan — Gothic dictionary and 42-token candidate inventorywitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Codex Argenteus, Luke 19:14
fijan / fijan / early 6th-century witness, source-reported
Lemma fijan — Gothic dictionary and 42-token candidate inventorywitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Codex Ambrosianus A, Romans 9:13
fijan / fijan / Gothic manuscript corpus, date not normalized
Lemma fijan — Gothic dictionary and 42-token candidate inventorywitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Codex Ambrosianus A, Ephesians 5:29
fijan / fijan / Gothic manuscript corpus, date not normalized
Lemma fijan — Gothic dictionary and 42-token candidate inventorywitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
O'Reilly poems citation in eDIL
cais / cais / date not normalized; source-reported
eDIL — 1 cais, noun explained as both love and hatewitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Éigse citation in eDIL
cais / cais / date not normalized; source-reported
eDIL — 1 cais, noun explained as both love and hatewitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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