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WORD DOSSIERS
clue
A fact that guides discovery—once literally a ball of thread.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗dialogue
Conversation, represented speech, or an exchange of ideas; inherited through medieval French and Latin from a Greek speaking-family.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗hassen
The modern German weak verb for feeling hatred toward a person or for strongly disliking a thing or action. Duden traces it through Middle High German haʒʒen and Old High German haʒʒēn / haʒʒōn and adds that the older verb also meant pursue. Grimm’s DWB makes the semantic contrast explicit: it calls hostile pursuit or persecution the original sense and then describes a later, more muted center in hostile disposition rather than hostile deeds. BMZ and Lexer independently document the Middle High German verb and its literary record. The reviewed ancestry follows the reconstructed Germanic weak-verb alternatives into the *hatiz- family, preserves the qualified *ḱh₂d-es- / *ḱeh₂d- proposal, and then stops.
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Fiction is historically something shaped.
Latin fictiō names shaping or molding, feigning, and pretense before English literary narrative becomes one major center.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
Ancient Greek literary record
λέγω / logic / Archaic Greek
Logeion: λέγωreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗Ancient Greek literary and documentary record
λόγος / logic / Archaic / Classical Greek
Logeion: λόγοςreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗Latin legal and literary record
lēx / legal / Roman antiquity
Logeion: lexreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗Latin literary record
legere / lecture / Latin antiquity
Logeion: legō / legerereporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗Latin literary and epigraphic record
salārium / salary / Roman imperial period
Logeion: salariumreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗English literary record
clue / clue / late 16th to 17th century
Oxford English Dictionary: clue, n.reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗Merriam-Webster source-reported English record
dialogue / dialogue / 13th century
Dialogue — Definition, Word History, and First Known Usewitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗Merriam-Webster source-reported English record
prologue / prologue / 14th century
Prologue — Definition, Word History, and First Known Usewitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SEARCH IS DISCOVERY, NOT PROOF
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