GRAPH-WIDE SEARCH
MEASURE THE GRAPH ↗NOT JUST A DICTIONARY LOOKUP
6 EVIDENCE COLLECTIONSSEARCH
THE GRAPH.
Find a modern word—or search sideways through reconstructed roots, historical forms, meanings, languages, scholars, sources, claims, disputes, and witnesses.
WIKTIONARY VIA KAIKKI / WIKTEXTRACT
Imported dictionary evidence
These are source reports, not reviewed *SET-U ancestry. A list of templates or numbered etymologies is not an ancestor chain. Scholarly disagreements remain in the original source text.
35,981 English word records · 45,491 etymology sections in this online subset
PARTIAL ENGLISH COVERAGE · FULL CORPUS REMAINS LOCAL2 source sections across 1 headword matching “Rent”. These are separate from the reviewed results below.
rentEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗rentEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
INDEPENDENT SOURCE LIBRARY
More sources for this spelling
These are spelling matches, not a claim of identical senses or agreement. Historical accounts retain their own editions and limits; none is automatically promoted into reviewed ancestry.
Chambers (1908)
1908- RentEnglish · e-38699-5905
Rent, rent, n. an opening made by rending: fissure: break: tear: a schism, as a rent in a church. [Rend.]
Read the full source record → - RentEnglish · e-38699-5906
Rent, rent, n. annual payment in return for the use of property held of another, esp. houses and lands: revenue.—v.t. to hold or occupy by paying rent: to let, or to hire, for a rent.—v.i. to be let for rent: to endow.—a
Read the full source record → - RentEnglish · e-38699-5907
Rent, rent, pa.t. and pa.p. of rend.
Read the full source record →
The query “rent” cannot be resolved without D1. No static search results are fabricated.
SEARCH IS DISCOVERY, NOT PROOF
EVERY RESULT OPENS A PERMANENT EVIDENCE RECORD.
Matching text only locates a record. It does not raise confidence, settle a dispute, establish cognacy, or turn a source report into direct inspection. Follow the result into its citations and editorial limits.