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PARTIAL ENGLISH COVERAGE · FULL CORPUS REMAINS LOCAL1 source section across 1 headword matching “Ewer”. These are separate from the reviewed results below.
ewerEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Middle English ewer, from Anglo-Norman or Old French ewer, eawer (modern French évier), from Latin aquārium, from aqua (“water”). Doublet of aquarium.
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024010
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WORD DOSSIERS
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HISTORICAL FORMS
No reviewed record in this collection contains “ewer.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 1
openproposedposition text
Is the deepest brightness root *kand- or *(s)kend-?
The graph preserves both published analyses. The newer Merriam-Webster route uses *(s)kend- and explains candēre through a zero-grade stative formation; the prior *kand- route remains proposed.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 0
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
digitized primary source5 CLAIM LINKS
De Bello Gallico — Latin edition in the Scaife Viewer
Gaius Julius Caesar; T. Rice Holmes, editor / 1914
publisherAUDIT EVERY USE ↗digital critical edition4 CLAIM LINKS
Homer, Iliad 1.445 — πολύστονα κήδεʼ
Homer · Tufts University digital text editors
publisherAUDIT EVERY USE ↗digitized primary source3 CLAIM LINKS
ONP manuscript record — Holm perg 15 4° with folio 89v scan
Sprogsamlinger · University of Copenhagen / 1200
publisherAUDIT EVERY USE ↗052
FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Dumnorix in Caesar’s De Bello Gallico
-rīx / -rīx / first-century BCE work, inspected through a 1914 digital edition
De Bello Gallico — Latin edition in the Scaife Viewerreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Vercingetorix in Caesar’s De Bello Gallico
-rīx / -rīx / first-century BCE work, inspected through a 1914 digital edition
De Bello Gallico — Latin edition in the Scaife Viewerreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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