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WIKTIONARY VIA KAIKKI / WIKTEXTRACT
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35,981 English word records · 45,491 etymology sections in this online subset
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INDEPENDENT SOURCE LIBRARY
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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 / 9
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Has Hass always meant only intense inner aversion?
No. Modern Duden centers intense aversion and hostility, but DWB reports Middle High German hostile action, anger expressed in deeds, pursuit, and measured rivalry beside the familiar disposition sense.
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Do the displayed citations measure how often speakers used love versus hate?
No. They are a selected historical-dictionary evidence surface, not a balanced corpus or a sample of medieval speech.
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Do 42 candidate tokens measure spoken Gothic frequency?
No. They measure a bounded, fragmentary textual corpus with duplicate manuscript witnesses, biblical translation effects, and unresolved lemma assignments.
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Do 26 candidates measure spoken Gothic frequency?
No. They measure a bounded fragmentary textual corpus with biblical translation effects, ambiguous lemma assignments, and duplicate manuscript witnesses.
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Do two surviving tokens prove hatan was rare in spoken Gothic?
No. They measure a bounded and fragmentary textual corpus, not ordinary speech, lost texts, genre distribution, or competition among Gothic hate verbs.
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Can the six-hit result measure ordinary medieval speech?
No. Corpus Oudfries is a surviving-text corpus dominated by legal and related manuscripts, not a random sample or recording of spoken frequency.
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Do the surviving token counts measure spoken Gothic frequency?
No. Fifteen reported corpus tokens measure a bounded textual survival, heavily shaped by biblical translation and manuscript loss. They cannot estimate how often Goths used the noun, its competing synonyms, or its everyday senses.
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Does one surviving token prove the verb was rare in spoken Gothic?
No. It proves only that the current surviving and verified corpus contains one assigned token. The fragmentary manuscript record cannot measure ordinary speech.
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Does one surviving hatjan token prove the verb was rare in spoken Gothic?
No. It proves only that the surviving and currently verified corpus contains one token assigned to this lemma. The fragmentary manuscript record cannot measure ordinary spoken frequency.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 155GRADE Acontrarian claim
Regular is measured order.
Late Latin rēgulāris grows from rēgula, the straight bar or rule. Ordinary, scheduled, and normal are later abstractions from conformity to a rule.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
No reviewed record in this collection contains “measure.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
No reviewed record in this collection contains “measure.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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