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all-English (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-Germanic *ala- Proto-West Germanic *ala- Old English æl- Middle English all- English all- From Middle English all- (also al-), from Old English eall-, eal- (“all-”). Cognate with Dutch al-, German all-, Swedish all-. More at all.
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024011
MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
omniscient
having total, universal, or complete knowledge; also an all-knowing narrator or being
- DATE
- 1598–today
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Medieval Latin / Indo-European
omniscient-, omnisciēns
knowing all things; all-knowing
- DATE
- Medieval or New Latin
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Medieval Latin / Indo-European
omniscientia
all-knowledge or omniscience
- DATE
- Medieval Latin
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
resolvedestablishedposition text
Do allpaqa, all-paka, and allphaqa imply competing origins?
No. The references use different editorial and official spellings for the Aymara animal word while agreeing on Aymara ancestry.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Was omniscient assembled in English from omni plus science?
No. English borrowed a learned Latin all-knowing form; the compound analysis belongs inside Latin, not as a new English coinage from the modern noun science.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 171GRADE Acontrarian claim
Omniscient was already an all-knowing word before English borrowed it.
The structure belongs to learned Latin: omni- plus the knowing family. English did not freshly bolt omni onto the modern noun science.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
historical dictionary18 CLAIM LINKS
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary — hete and related entries
John R. Clark Hall / 1916
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗historical dictionary4 CLAIM LINKS
Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket — Fiande
Knut Fredrik Söderwall
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗lexical corpus record3 CLAIM LINKS
ONP citation — hata in Páls saga postula 216
Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors · Unger edition / 2023
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗dataset documentation1 CLAIM LINKS
Söderwall: Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket — resource metadata
Språkbanken Text
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗050
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