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noun · verbdossier summary
quarantine
Isolation used to prevent contagion, named through a Romance expression for a period of forty.
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vriend
Dutch vriend continues Middle Dutch vrient and Old Dutch friunt. EWN identifies Old Dutch records around 1100 and derives the word from Proto-Germanic *frijōnd-, the old present participle of *frijōn-, to love; WNT and MNW independently preserve the participial analysis and a much wider historical sense field including companion, relative, ally, patron, lover, address, mediator, and supporter. The modern spelling has one syllable and the pronunciation /vrint/; historical vrind and vrund variants prevent spelling from being mistaken for unchanged sound. The graph reuses the same reviewed *frijōnd-, *frī-, and proposed *prī- nodes as English friend and German Freund, then stops.
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 7
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Is the be- in betroth the verb be?
No. It is the historical prefix bi- or be-, related to Old English bi- or be- and bī “by, near,” not the copular verb.
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Are bridegroom and human directly descended from one another?
No. Germanic *gumōn- and Latin homō reflect different earthling formations that meet only at *dhghem-.
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Is the grass called chess part of the game family?
No connection is asserted. Merriam-Webster labels the grass-name origin unknown.
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Are *daigjōn-, *daiga-, and dough *daigaz one interchangeable reconstructed word?
No. They are related formation, stem, and noun shapes with different grammatical and lexical roles.
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Was an etymologist an ancient Greek professional title?
No. The English agent noun is reported only from the Early Modern period, though its base ultimately contains Greek material.
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Does modern vriend literally mean someone currently loving?
No. Historical morphology and current lexical meaning are different layers.
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Are κῆδος and kêdos separate Ancient Greek lexemes?
No. Merriam-Webster uses the Latin-script transliteration kêdos for the same Greek noun that LSJ indexes as κῆδος.
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