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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024Enes
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
candid
Open or frank in modern English, inherited through French and Latin from a family of brightness and whiteness.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗candor
Frankness or honest expression, historically a word for brightness, radiance, whiteness, and unstained purity.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗conscience
The moral sense or awareness of one's conduct, inherited through medieval French from the Latin knowing-family.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗feign
To invent, fabricate, make a likeness, or pretend; borrowed through Anglo-French from Latin fingere, to shape or fashion.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗fiction
Invented narrative, imaginative creation, pretense, or legal assumption; borrowed through French from Latin fictio, an action of shaping, molding, or feigning.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗figure
A shape, representation, symbol, number, person, or act of calculation; borrowed through French from Latin figūra, form or shape.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗heti
Old Saxon heti is an attested noun, not a reconstructed Proto-Germanic form. Köbler prints the normalized citation form hėti* with a trailing asterisk, then gives three cited lexical loci whose inflections produce five witness readings: accusative singular heti at Heliand 1322 in manuscripts M, C, and V; dative singular heti at Genesis 60; and genitive singular hetias in the tenth-century Saxon Confession. No nominative singular appears in that inventory, but the exact surface heti is visibly written in Munich Cgm 25. The directly inspected Heliand line places the noun in the Beatitudes, where righteous people endure rîkioro manno heti endi harmquidi, powerful men's hostility or persecution and hostile speech. The Saxon Confession instead places hetias beside malice, envy, and slander among confessed wrongs. Those contexts establish a range broader than one private feeling without proving that persecution was the prehistoric root meaning. Fulk and Köbler analyze the Old Saxon comparison as an i-stem; Pfeifer describes the wider Germanic noun as an old es/os-stem, so the inherited morphological account remains public rather than falsely harmonized.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗icon
An image, likeness, representative figure, or display symbol, borrowed through Late Latin from Greek eikōn.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗kind
An inherited English word whose noun history runs through nature, birth, class, and family while its adjective history runs through what is natural, native, fitting, and only later benevolent.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nescience
Lack of knowledge or awareness, borrowed from the Latin negative-knowing family also underlying science and the older history of nice.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗omniscient
Knowing everything; borrowed from a learned Latin all-knowing formation in the science and scire family.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗science
Systematic knowledge today; inherited through French from Latin scientia, a much broader word for knowledge, awareness, and understanding.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
candor
brightness, radiance, whiteness; favorable disposition
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- Latin antiquity
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conscience
awareness of right and wrong; moral judgment; historically also consciousness or awareness
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- 13th century–today
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- 1
conscience
awareness of conduct, morality, or inward knowledge
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- Middle English, 13th–15th centuries
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- 1
conscience
conscience, consciousness, or inward awareness
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- Anglo-French period
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- 1
cōnscientia
knowledge, awareness, consciousness, or moral knowledge
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- Latin antiquity and Late Latin
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- 1
feindre
fashion; make a likeness; pretend
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- Anglo-French
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- 1
feynen
make; fabricate; make a likeness; dissemble; pretend
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- Middle English
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- 1
figure
shape; form; likeness; symbol; written character
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- Middle English
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- gloss
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- 1
figure
shape; form; likeness
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- Anglo-French
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- 1
figure
shape; form; likeness
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- Old French
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- 0
figūra
shape; form; likeness; figure of speech
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- Latin antiquity
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- 1
fingere
to mold; fashion; shape; make a likeness
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- Latin antiquity
- MATCH
- gloss
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- 2
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 12
Did conscience always mean only a moral judge?
No. Moral awareness is early and central, but the Latin family and an obsolete English sense also include consciousness or general awareness.
Did feign originally mean only to lie?
No. Its recorded Middle English field includes make, fabricate, make a likeness, dissemble, and pretend.
Does definite singular fienden always mean the Devil?
No. Historical religious contexts can use Fienden that way, but SO also notes definite singular in ordinary military use. Grammar alone cannot choose the referent.
Did figure begin as a word only for numbers?
No. Its Latin and medieval fields include shape, form, likeness, symbol, and representation; numerical use is one branch of a wider history.
Are the 222 ONP citations a complete Old Norse corpus?
No completeness claim is made. They are the public entry’s current citation set, valuable evidence rather than the set of every surviving occurrence.
Does Köbler's count three mean three manuscripts?
No. It denotes three lexical loci: Heliand 1322, Genesis 60, and the Saxon Confession. The Heliand locus alone has M, C, and V readings, producing five reported witness readings overall.
Were the Cotton, Vatican, Genesis, and Saxon Confession objects directly inspected?
No. Their readings are source-reported through Köbler or the Academy dictionary; no exact primary-object pixels were inspected for those four rows.
Does the Heliand persecution context define every use of the noun?
No. Genesis supplies a different grammatical environment, and the Saxon Confession places hetias among confessed wrongs beside malice, envy, and slander. One line cannot define the whole lexeme.
Can heti be pinned to one exact birthplace?
No. The Heliand poetic origin is unresolved, its witnesses traveled through distinct manuscript contexts, and the Genesis and confession records are not one production event.
Are the sacred image, celebrity, and computer icon different etymological words?
No. They are semantic extensions within the image-and-likeness family; the later uses do not create separate ancestors.
Did science always mean modern natural science?
No. Its earliest English and Latin histories center on knowledge, learning, awareness, and branches of knowledge.
Does Bīrūnī prove tea was already a common Persian drink in the 11th century?
No. The report proves learned awareness and discussion of use in China and Tibet; Iranica says this does not establish broad Persian consumption at that time.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 8
Kind is not kin with a d—and kindness did not begin as niceness.
Kind and kin descend through separate Germanic formations and meet only at the deeper birth root. The adjective first carries natural, native, fitting, and proper senses; benevolence becomes prominent through later semantic development.
The Old English verb survives most visibly as an enemy.
The located weak-verb corpus inventory gives hettan only one form: hettende. Bosworth–Toller records that surface family repeatedly under hettend, “enemy” or “antagonist,” including Genesis and the Phoenix. The verb is therefore not a neat recovered paradigm; it is a lemma inferred at the edge between action, agent, and lexicalized foe.
Feign once included making, not only pretending.
Middle English feynen could mean make, fabricate, or make a likeness as well as dissemble or pretend, continuing the fingere shaping family.
Conscious began as knowing—including knowing with another.
Latin cōnscius could describe awareness or knowledge shared with another person. English later centered the word on private awareness, wakefulness, and deliberate action.
An 11th-century mention is not an 11th-century mass habit.
Bīrūnī’s report establishes Persian scholarly awareness of čāy; it does not date widespread Persian drinking, and Iranica leaves the adoption mechanism unknown.
Conscience was not always only the moral judge.
The word's recorded family also includes consciousness and awareness. Moral self-judgment became central inside a wider history of knowing.
Candor was radiance before frankness.
Latin candor and the earliest English family name brightness, whiteness, or unstained purity before modern honest expression becomes dominant.
The honest root of icon ends in uncertainty.
Icon securely reaches Greek eikōn “image, likeness.” A proposed deeper comparison is doubtful, so the most revealing answer is the boundary itself.
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No reviewed record in this collection contains “enes.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
Merriam-Webster source-reported English record
icon / icon / 1572
Icon — Definition, Word History, and First Known Usewitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗Old Saxon Genesis dative occurrence
heti / heti / Old Saxon Genesis witness; object date not normalized here
Altsächsisches Wörterbuch — hatōn and hėttiandreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗SEARCH IS DISCOVERY, NOT PROOF
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