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PARTIAL ENGLISH COVERAGE · FULL CORPUS REMAINS LOCAL2 source sections across 1 headword matching “Path”. These are separate from the reviewed results below.
pathEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). The Proto-Germanic term is possibly borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from the root *pent- (“to pass”), but this is disputed. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Paad, Pad (“path”), West Frisian paad (“path”), Dutch pad (“path”), German Pfad (“path”), German Low German Padd (“path”), Luxembourgish Pad (“path”). Indo-Iranian cognates could be Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊, “way”), Old Persian 𐎱𐎰 (p-θ /paθi/), Hindi पथ (path), Sanskrit पन्था (panthā, “path”). See also English find. Doublet of panth.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗pathEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
noun and adjectivecontrarian claim
dairy
Milk, milk products, or a place and enterprise devoted to them; historically built on the occupational word for a woman managing milk and food production.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗adjective · later substantivized neutercontrarian claim
ἔτυμος
An Ancient Greek adjective meaning true, real, or actual; its neuter later supplied a technical noun for a word’s true sense according to its origin.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 12
openprobableposition text
Can the exact pronunciation and path into fjá be recovered?
Not completely. Vowel quantity, optional glide, contraction, surface variation, and poetic normalization belong to historical analysis rather than recorded audio.
openprobableposition text
Can the exact Proto-Germanic pronunciation and path into fīēn be recovered?
Not completely. Optional j, vowel quantity, stem remodeling, and daughter inflection belong to comparative analysis rather than a recorded transition.
openproposedposition text
Did the noun hate directly continue Old English hete?
The inherited noun is part of the history, but the immediate path is disputed. American Heritage presents Middle English hate from Old English hete; Merriam-Webster says the Middle English noun was probably derived from haten and replaced hete.
openprobableposition text
How secure is the remote hospes compound?
Hospital’s path to Latin hospitāle and hospes is secure; the further reduction of hospes from *ghos-pot- remains probable rather than certain.
openproposedposition text
Does vijand securely descend from exactly *peh₁-?
Only as a qualified proposal. Kroonen and EWN publish deeper laryngeal-bearing analyses, but their notation and intermediate formation differ and the harm, blame, suffering, hostility, and hate path is not uniquely recoverable.
openspeculativeposition text
Did ritual blood relationship create the kin sense?
De Vries proposes a ritual social explanation, but the accessible evidence does not establish it as the unique historical path.
openproposedposition text
Are Germanic hate words unquestionably cognate with κῆδος?
No. The formal comparison is prominent enough to traverse, but the sources explicitly qualify the semantic path and do not recover one shared original sense.
openproposedposition text
Does ἐτεός securely prove *set-u-?
It supports the proposal, but the reconstructed preform, ablaut, and suffixation are not directly attested or unanimous.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Are -logy and -logue interchangeable endings?
No. They are relatives in the Greek logos and legein family, but English -logy follows -logie, Latin -logia, and Greek -logiā, while prologue follows Greek prologos through Latin prologus and French prologue. Related ancestry does not erase distinct formations and transmission paths.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Is bride the same historical word as bird?
No. Bosworth-Toller records brȳd, bride or spouse, separately from brid, the young of a bird; the reviewed bride path follows brȳd.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Was the second element of bridegroom always groom?
No. The inherited form had guma or gome, man; groom replaced the opaque element by folk etymology.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Can the akin German and Sanskrit forms be used as direct parents?
No. The reviewed source labels Old High German kliuwa and Sanskrit glauḥ as akin forms, not successive ancestors of English clew.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 3
RANK 7GRADE Aranked reveal
Nice crossed from ignorance to approval.
Latin nescius “ignorant” became foolish or wanton, then fastidious and precise, and finally pleasant or kind.
RANK 162GRADE Aranked reveal
Regal and royal are two arrivals from one king adjective.
The English paths differ, but both reach Latin rēgālis and rēx. Their synonymy reflects shared ancestry, not one modern word copied from the other.
RANK 193GRADE A-ranked reveal
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
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
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