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35,981 English word records · 45,491 etymology sections in this online subset
PARTIAL ENGLISH COVERAGE · FULL CORPUS REMAINS LOCALNo exact match for “Letter” in this partial English subset. That does not mean the full research corpus—or linguistic scholarship—has no record. Check the original dictionary entry ↗
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
openprobableposition text
Does the root prove that reading is “gathering letters”?
No. Latin legere covers gathering, selecting, and reading, but the precise semantic steps cannot be recovered from a slogan alone.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Is hatizoþ second-person plural present indicative?
Project Wulfila analyzes it as active indicative present second-person plural. The pixels verify the form, while the grammatical label remains an editorial morphological analysis.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 3
RANK 19GRADE Acontrarian claim
The x of rēx is a whole nominative sound change in one letter.
Latin starts from the bound stem rēg-, adds nominative -s, devoices g to k, and writes the resulting /ks/ as x. Genitive rēgis makes the stem visible—but it is a sibling case form, not an ancestor.
RANK 21GRADE Aranked reveal
King comes from the kin family; kin does not come from king.
English kin independently continues Old English cynn and Germanic *kunja-. The royal title is a separate suffixed formation on that lineage base, so the shared letters preserve real morphology without making either modern word the parent of the other.
RANK 193GRADE A-contrarian claim
The reconstructed root has grammar, not just letters.
The proposed path is not simply *set-u- with an asterisk. Scholars analyze formations such as *set-eu-o-, debate the vowel structure, and qualify the loss of initial *s.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
No reviewed record in this collection contains “letter.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book
The PAPER-OFFICE entry in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum includes Letters of Intelligence among official papers communicated to the King’s Council.
intelligence / intelligence / 1704
Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and scienceswitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
WikiWoordenboek pronunciation entry
vriend / vriend / current Dutch pronunciation record
WikiWoordenboek — vriend pronunciation and syllabificationwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Alexander's Letter to Aristotle, beloved teacher as friend
frēond / friend / Old English, source-reported
Oxford English Dictionary — friend, n. & adj.reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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