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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
nounhistorical form
conscience
The moral sense or awareness of one's conduct, inherited through medieval French from the Latin knowing-family.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗Old High German weak-verb citation formdossier summary
hazzōn
An Old High German citation form in the inherited Germanic hate-verb family, printed beside hazzēn and spelling variants hazēn, hazōn, haʒʒēn, and haʒʒōn. Starling’s source record dates hazzēn to the eighth century and hazzōn to the ninth; Duden and Grimm’s DWB group the ēn and ōn forms in the history of German hassen. Corpus-wide research independently shows that some Old High German class-III ēn verbs also occur with class-II ōn forms, but the accessible abstract does not establish that hazzōn is one of its twenty repeatedly attested double forms. DWB reports haʒôn aligned with Latin aemulari and the forms hatamas and hatent with insequamur and insequuntur. Those reports support an action range involving following or hostile pursuit; they are not directly inspected manuscript tokens. Pokorny’s account, as transmitted by Starling, explicitly warns that the Germanic evidence does not prove “pursue” was the root’s basic meaning. The route therefore distinguishes the normalized headword, the combined historical variants, the reconstructed Germanic weak verb and noun family, the qualified Indo-European comparison, and the point where knowledge ends.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nounhistorical form
intelligence
Capacity for understanding, information, or the organizations that gather it; inherited through French from Latin intelligentia.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗noundossier summary
nescience
Lack of knowledge or awareness, borrowed from the Latin negative-knowing family also underlying science and the older history of nice.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗adjective · nounhistorical form
omniscient
Knowing everything; borrowed from a learned Latin all-knowing formation in the science and scire family.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗adjectivedossier summary
prescient
Having foreknowledge or unusually accurate foresight, borrowed through French and/or directly from Latin praesciens.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nouncontrarian claim
science
Systematic knowledge today; inherited through French from Latin scientia, a much broader word for knowledge, awareness, and understanding.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Middle English / Indo-European
conscience
awareness of conduct, morality, or inward knowledge
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- Middle English, 13th–15th centuries
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Latin / Indo-European
cōnscientia
knowledge, awareness, consciousness, or moral knowledge
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- Latin antiquity and Late Latin
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French / Indo-European
intelligence
understanding; knowledge
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- Middle French
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
nescience
lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance
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- 1612–today
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Latin / Indo-European
nescientia
ignorance; lack of knowledge
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- Late Latin
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
omniscient
having total, universal, or complete knowledge; also an all-knowing narrator or being
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- 1598–today
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Medieval Latin / Indo-European
omniscientia
all-knowledge or omniscience
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- Medieval Latin
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- 1
Present-Day English / Indo-European
prescient
having foreknowledge or unusually accurate foresight
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- 1620s–today
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- 1
Middle French / Indo-European
prescient
foreknowing or having advance knowledge
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- French, 15th century
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
science
systematic knowledge, especially knowledge tested through scientific method
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- 19th century–today
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
science
an organized body or branch of knowledge
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- 16th–18th centuries
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Middle English / Indo-European
science / cience
knowledge, learning, the ability to know, a branch of knowledge
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- 14th–15th centuries
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- 1
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 6
openboundaryposition text
Can icon be securely reconstructed beyond Greek eikōn?
Not from the reviewed evidence. Merriam-Webster calls the proposed deeper base uncertain and a Lithuanian comparison doubtful; Etymonline likewise stops at uncertain Greek prehistory.
openproposedposition text
Can the movement family be pushed securely beyond *meue-?
Not from the reviewed evidence. Etymonline publishes *meue- for the movement root, but this dossier does not promote an older form without specialist comparative review.
resolvedestablishedposition text
How did intelligence become secret information?
The word already meant understanding and knowledge; news and strategic information developed from that information sense, later naming the services that gather it.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Does prescient etymologically mean seeing the future?
No. Its documented Latin structure is prae- “before” plus scīre “to know”: foreknowledge, not a sight-word formation.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Did science always mean modern natural science?
No. Its earliest English and Latin histories center on knowledge, learning, awareness, and branches of knowledge.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Is *werh1- an attested first human word?
No. The asterisk marks a comparative reconstruction, and the reviewed source stops at the speaking root rather than identifying any spoken first word.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
RANK 92GRADE Acontrarian claim
Science originally meant knowledge.
Before the modern natural-science center, science could mean knowledge or an organized branch of learning. A directly inspected 1704 witness still prints that broader institutional sense.
RANK 142GRADE Aranked reveal
Conscious began as knowing—including knowing with another.
Latin cōnscius could describe awareness or knowledge shared with another person. English later centered the word on private awareness, wakefulness, and deliberate action.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
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No reviewed record in this collection contains “nowl.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
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