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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024Egen
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
nouncontrarian claim
legend
A traditional story or explanatory inscription, descended from Latin “things to be read.”
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nouncontrarian claim
lesson
A unit of instruction or something learned, descending through a word that first named an act or selection of reading.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗verb, adjectivecontrarian claim
select
To choose or mark out from a group, borrowed from Latin selectus and seligere, literally gathering apart.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗025
ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
legend
traditional story; inscription; explanatory key
- DATE
- c. 1500–today
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- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Latin / Indo-European
legenda
things to be read
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- Medieval Latin
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- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Middle English / Indo-European
legende
a saint’s life or reading; inscription
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- Middle English
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Anglo-French / Indo-European
legende
reading matter; saint’s life
- DATE
- Anglo-French
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Latin / Indo-European
legendus
that which is to be read
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- Latin
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 3
openprobableposition text
Does the trailing star specifically mean that the nominative singular is unattested?
That is a plausible reading because Köbler lists only accusative, dative, and genitive evidence, but no explicit legend defining this exact trailing star was located in the reviewed source.
openprobableposition text
Why did appointed readings become unverifiable stories?
Association with saints’ lives and inherited narratives supplies the historical environment, but the semantic expansion was gradual rather than one datable pivot.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Did legend originally mean a false story?
No. Medieval Latin legenda meant things to be read. The uncertainty or fictionality of a traditional story is a later development.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
RANK 206GRADE Acontrarian claim
A legend was “something to be read.”
The dubious-story sense came later than the Medieval Latin reading category.
RANK 208GRADE A-ranked reveal
To select is to gather apart.
Latin seligere combines se- “apart” with legere “gather, select.” The same gathering verb sits behind lecture, lesson, legend, and collect.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Old English gecynde passage reported by Loureiro-Porto
cynd / gecynd / kind / circa 888 passage reported from Alfred’s Boethius
Pragmatic Markers in World Englishes: Kind of and Sort of as a Case in Pointwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk record discussed by Alonso de la Fuente
kayguk / kayık / 11th-century kayguk report
Urban legends: Turkish kayık “boat” and “Eskimo” qayaq “kayak”reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexicographic first use
English lexical record
legend / legend / c. 1500
Legend — Word Historyreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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