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onEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Middle English on English on From Middle English on, from Old English on, an (“on, upon, onto, in, into”), from Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on, at”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“on, onto”). Cognates Cognate with Yola a, an, ana, on (“on”), Saterland Frisian an (“on; at”), West Frisian oan (“on; to, towards”), Cimbrian aan, å (“on, onto”), Dutch aan (“on; at”), Low German an (“on; at, to”), German an (“at, in; on”), Luxembourgish un (“on; at, to”), Yiddish אָן (on, “on, onward”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish å (“on”), Elfdalian ą̊ (“on”), Faroese and Icelandic á (“in; on”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana, “at, on”); also Umbrian 𐌀𐌌- (am-), 𐌀𐌍- (an-, “up, upon”), Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “on, upon”) (whence Greek ανά (aná, “by, through, per”)), Albanian në (“in; on”), Latvian no (“from; out of; for; of; with”), Lithuanian nuo (“from, off; for, of”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian на (na, “on”), Czech, Polish, Slovak, and Slovene na (“on”), Serbo-Croatian на, na (“on”), Old Armenian ան- (an-, “at, on, unto”); and from Old Norse upp á: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish på (“on”), Norwegian Nynorsk paa, på (“on”), see upon.

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onEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Middle English on English on From Middle English on, from Old English on, an (“on, upon, onto, in, into”), from Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on, at”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“on, onto”). Cognates Cognate with Yola a, an, ana, on (“on”), Saterland Frisian an (“on; at”), West Frisian oan (“on; to, towards”), Cimbrian aan, å (“on, onto”), Dutch aan (“on; at”), Low German an (“on; at, to”), German an (“at, in; on”), Luxembourgish un (“on; at, to”), Yiddish אָן (on, “on, onward”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish å (“on”), Elfdalian ą̊ (“on”), Faroese and Icelandic á (“in; on”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana, “at, on”); also Umbrian 𐌀𐌌- (am-), 𐌀𐌍- (an-, “up, upon”), Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “on, upon”) (whence Greek ανά (aná, “by, through, per”)), Albanian në (“in; on”), Latvian no (“from; out of; for; of; with”), Lithuanian nuo (“from, off; for, of”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian на (na, “on”), Czech, Polish, Slovak, and Slovene na (“on”), Serbo-Croatian на, na (“on”), Old Armenian ան- (an-, “at, on, unto”); and from Old Norse upp á: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish på (“on”), Norwegian Nynorsk paa, på (“on”), see upon.

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onEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text

From Old Norse ón, án (“without”), from Proto-Germanic *ēnu, *ēno, *ino (“without”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḗnu (“without”). Cognate with North Frisian on (“without”), Middle Dutch an, on (“without”), Middle Low German āne (“without”), German ohne (“without”), Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐌿 (inu, “without, except”). Unlikely to be related to Ancient Greek ἄνευ (áneu, “without”), which is likely akin to Proto-Germanic *sundraz instead (whence sunder).

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onEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text

From Japanese 音読み (on'yomi, literally “sound reading”).

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24CLAIMS
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS

WORD DOSSIERS

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noun combining formcontrarian claim

-logy

A bound English word element used in formations involving discourse or expression and in names of doctrines, theories, sciences, and fields of study.

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onomastic compound elementcontrarian claim

-rīx

An attested Gaulish second member meaning “king” or “prince,” visible in compound personal names such as Dumnorix and Vercingetorix and inherited from Proto-Celtic *rīx-s.

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nouncontrarian claim

December

The twelfth month in the modern calendar; its inherited Latin name literally identifies it as the tenth month.

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German masculine nouncontrarian claim

Feind

The modern German noun for a personal, political, military, or ideological enemy or opponent. Duden derives it through Middle High German vīnt or vīant and Old High German fīand, literally the hating one; DWDS dates Old High German fīant and fījant to the eighth century and identifies the Germanic ancestor as a petrified substantivized present participle. Grimm’s dictionary independently compares Gothic fijands, Old English fēond, English fiend, Dutch vijand, and Nordic forms, while warning that its own still-deeper foam hypothesis required confirmation. The reviewed route therefore follows the inherited enemy noun to reconstructed *fi(j)and- and *fi(j)ēn-, then treats *peh₁- as proposed and stops.

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German masculine nouncontrarian claim

Freund

German Freund continues Middle High German vriunt and Old High German friunt. DWDS/Pfeifer, Duden, and Grimm independently analyze the inherited Germanic formation as a substantivized present participle of the verb represented by Gothic frijōn and Old English frēogan: historically a loving or favorably disposed one. The record is semantically wider than a modern close companion: the historical dictionaries also document neighbor, relative, lover, ally, supporter, patron, address, and euphemistic uses. The graph joins the High German line to the same reviewed *frijōnd- and *frī- nodes as English friend, keeps *prī- proposed, and stops.

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German masculine nouncontrarian claim

Hass

The modern German noun for intense aversion, rejection, or hostility toward a person, group, or institution. Duden traces Middle and Old High German haʒ to suffering, sorrow, and resentment and records the 1996 spelling change from Haß to Hass. DWDS/Pfeifer reports the Old High German noun from the eighth century and places it in the Germanic family of Old Saxon heti, Old English hete, Old Norse hatr, Gothic hatis, and related forms. Grimm’s DWB preserves a more complicated semantic record: hostile pursuit or action, anger expressed in deeds, ordinary hostile disposition, and even measured rivalry during friendly competition. The reviewed route reuses *hatiz- and the qualified *ḱh₂d-es- / *ḱeh₂d- comparison, then stops.

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nouncontrarian claim

Liebe

The German noun for love, inherited through Middle and Old High German and a Germanic abstract-noun formation distinct from the immediate noun ancestry of English love.

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noundossier summary

adverb

A grammatical class commonly modifying verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, phrases, clauses, or sentences; the English term continues Latin adverbium.

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nouncontrarian claim

aguacate

The Spanish word for the avocado tree and fruit, borrowed from Nahuatl āhuacatl, whose historical records include both fruit and testicle senses.

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nouncontrarian claim

algebra

A mathematical discipline whose English name travels through Medieval Latin from Arabic al-jabr, restoration or completion.

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noundossier summary

algorism

The older English word for calculation with Hindu-Arabic numerals, transmitted through French and Medieval Latin from the name al-Khwārizmī.

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nouncontrarian claim

algorithm

A finite or stepwise procedure, descended through medieval arithmetic vocabulary from the Latinized name of al-Khwārizmī.

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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY

HISTORICAL FORMS

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Proto-Indo-European / Indo-European

*(dh)ghm̥-on-

earthling; human being

DATE
Proto-Indo-European suffixed zero-grade formation
MATCH
transliteration
DOSSIERS
1
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Proto-Indo-European / Indo-European

*(dh)ghom-on-

earthling; human being

DATE
Proto-Indo-European suffixed formation
MATCH
transliteration
DOSSIERS
1
*
Proto-Germanic / Indo-European

*-inga- / *-unga-

person associated with or belonging to a lineage

DATE
Proto-Germanic
MATCH
gloss
DOSSIERS
0
*
Proto-Germanic / Indo-European

*daigjōn-

female baker or servant

DATE
Proto-Germanic
MATCH
gloss
DOSSIERS
1
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Proto-Indo-European / Indo-European

*dhē-mnā-

woman or nursing female formation

DATE
Proto-Indo-European suffixed reduced formation
MATCH
gloss
DOSSIERS
1
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Middle Chinese (reconstructed reading) / Sino-Tibetan

*drae

tea; name of a plant

DATE
Middle Chinese reconstruction
MATCH
language
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5
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Proto-Indo-European / Indo-European

*drew-o-

firm or steadfast formation; wood or pledge branch

DATE
Proto-Indo-European suffixed variant
MATCH
gloss
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2
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Proto-Germanic / Indo-European

*fi(j)and-

lexicalized enemy formation from the hate verb’s present participle

DATE
Proto-Germanic reconstruction
MATCH
gloss
DOSSIERS
10
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Proto-Germanic / Indo-European

*fi(j)ēn-

a reconstructed verb meaning hate or be hostile toward

DATE
Proto-Germanic reconstruction
MATCH
gloss
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*
Proto-Germanic / Indo-European

*frijōnd-

a reconstructed present-participial formation, the loving or favorably disposed one

DATE
normalized Proto-Germanic participial formation
MATCH
gloss
DOSSIERS
5
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Proto-Indo-European / Indo-European

*ghos-pot-

guest-master; person embodying a reciprocal hospitality relationship

DATE
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
MATCH
gloss
DOSSIERS
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Proto-Indo-European / Indo-European

*ghos-ti-

stranger, guest, host; person with reciprocal duties of hospitality

DATE
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
MATCH
gloss
DOSSIERS
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 12

resolvedestablisheddispute-title prefix

One word for one feeling?

Proto-Indo-European did not preserve a single lexeme matching the entire modern English category LOVE.

openproposedposition text

Is the deepest root *leǵ- or *sleǵ-?

The traditional *leǵ- reconstruction remains widely represented, while published scholarship argues that the gather or collect root began with *s. The graph preserves both analyses.

openprobableposition text

Did -rīx mean exactly “king” in every compound name?

Not necessarily. The king or prince value is secure for the element, but scholarship distinguishes names where it is determinative from analyses in which it is semantically bleached or intensifying. Each host therefore requires its own compositional claim.

openprobableposition text

Did English receive December through Old English or French?

The reviewed source allows either Old English or Anglo-French transmission from Latin and does not choose between them.

openprobableposition text

Is the exact phonetic shape of *fi(j)and- directly known?

No. The form is a comparative reconstruction. Optional j notation, branch vowels, and the relation of written historical variants require analysis rather than direct Proto-Germanic observation.

openproposedposition text

Is the deepest *peh₁- route established?

No. The Germanic verb and lexicalized agent formation are firmer than the proposed Indo-European comparison, whose formal intermediates and semantic unity remain reconstructive.

openprobableposition text

Can the lexicalization of one who hates as enemy be dated to one exact event?

No unique event is known. Cross-branch evidence places it before the recorded daughter languages, but no text records the prehistoric lexicalization moment.

openprobableposition text

Can the exact Proto-Germanic pronunciation and paradigm be recovered?

Not completely. Comparative forms support the morphology, but no recording or written Proto-Germanic paradigm survives.

openprobableposition text

Can the exact lexicalization date of the loving participle be known?

No. The formation predates the daughter-language records and is already nominal in the earliest High German evidence.

openproposedposition text

Does Freund securely descend from exactly *prī-?

The comparison is published on the shared friend-family route but remains proposed and less secure than the Germanic formation.

openprobableposition text

Was the relative sense inherited or independently strengthened in Germanic branches?

The sources establish the sense across German and Nordic evidence but do not recover one complete prehistoric semantic tree.

openproposedposition text

Was the original meaning hostile pursuit or suffering and sorrow?

Unresolved. DWB argues for hostile pursuit or persecution as the original center; Duden glosses the origin as suffering, sorrow, and resentment; DWDS foregrounds hostile disposition, resentment, and enmity.

CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 12

RANK 2GRADE Aranked reveal

Truth began with firmness and fidelity.

Before truth centered factual correspondence, its family named what was firm, faithful, and steadfast.

RANK 4GRADE Aranked reveal

Humility is an earth-and-lowness metaphor.

Latin humus “ground” produced humilis “low,” then humilitās “lowness,” before the moral virtue.

RANK 6GRADE Aranked reveal

Evidence became a thread you could follow.

Old English cliewen was a ball of thread; the labyrinth metaphor turned it into guidance through uncertainty.

RANK 7GRADE Aranked reveal

Nice crossed from ignorance to approval.

Latin nescius “ignorant” became foolish or wanton, then fastidious and precise, and finally pleasant or kind.

RANK 8GRADE Aranked reveal

Etymology calls itself the “true account.”

Greek ἔτυμος “true, real” joined -λογία “account or study”; even that truth-word reaches a reconstructed root.

RANK 9GRADE Aranked reveal

The most repeated origin story is not the most rigorous answer.

Mapuche ancestry is a serious, evidenced proposal—but current RAE and a historical Spanish argument keep the deeper source genuinely open.

RANK 11GRADE Acontrarian claim

It was never humanity’s universal ancient name for spiritual practitioners.

English globalized a specific Evenki term through European scholarship and applied it to many unrelated traditions.

RANK 12GRADE Aranked reveal

A Turkish word is not proof of who invented the food.

English yogurt is Turkish yoğurt, probably related to yoğur- “knead”; the origin of fermented milk is a different historical question.

RANK 13GRADE Acontrarian claim

Legislation came before legislate.

The noun preserves a Latin law-bearing or law-proposing compound. English legislate was later back-formed from the already existing noun family.

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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES

SOURCES

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historical dictionary48 CLAIM LINKS

Oudnederlands Woordenboek — fīunt

Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal editorial team / 2009

citation-key prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗
historical dictionary22 CLAIM LINKS

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose — fjándi, masculine noun

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors / 2010

citation-key prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗
historical dictionary20 CLAIM LINKS

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose — frǽndi, masculine noun

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors / 2010

citation-key prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗
historical dictionary10 CLAIM LINKS

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose — fjá, poetic verb

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors / 2010

citation-key prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗
historical dictionary10 CLAIM LINKS

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose — hata, verb

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors / 2023

citation-key prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗
historical dictionary8 CLAIM LINKS

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose — ²hatr, neuter noun

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors / 2025

citation-key prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗
historical dictionary4 CLAIM LINKS

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose — ¹hatr, masculine analysis

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors / 2015

citation-key prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗
lexical corpus record4 CLAIM LINKS

ONP citation — hata in Ragnars saga loðbrókar 136

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors · Olsen edition / 2023

citation-key prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗
lexical corpus record3 CLAIM LINKS

ONP citation — hata in Diplomatarium Islandicum VI 242

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors · Jón Þorkelsson edition / 2023

citation-key prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗
lexical corpus record3 CLAIM LINKS

ONP citation — hata in Hómilíubók, Holm perg 15 4° folio 89v20

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors · de Leeuw van Weenen edition / 2023

citation-key prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗
lexical corpus record3 CLAIM LINKS

ONP citation — hata in Páls saga postula 216

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors · Unger edition / 2023

citation-key prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗
research database2 CLAIM LINKS

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose citation — Hatr hafa þeir engla

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors / 2026

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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS

ATTESTATION WITNESSES

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SOURCE REPORTEDlexicographic first use

Online Etymology Dictionary source-reported English record

prescient / prescient / 1620s

Prescient — Origin and historywitness-title prefix / OPEN RECORD ↗
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript

Heliand manuscript M, Beatitudes persecution clause

heti / heti / Heliand composition circa 830–840; Munich manuscript second half of the ninth century

Heliand — BSB Cgm 25, scan 41, folio 20r, heti locusreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript

Heliand manuscript M, Pilate question

hōti / hōti / Heliand composition circa 830–840; Munich manuscript second half of the ninth century

Heliand — BSB Cgm 25, scan 150, hotie locusreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript

Heliand manuscript M, accusation before Pilate

hōti / hōti / Heliand composition circa 830–840; Munich manuscript second half of the ninth century

Heliand — BSB Cgm 25, scan 152, hotean locuswitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript

Beowulf manuscript, foe’s footprint

fēond / fēond / late 10th or early 11th century

Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, folio 180v — Electronic Beowulf facsimilewitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript

Beowulf manuscript, Heorot filled with friends

frēond / frēond / late 10th or early 11th century

Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, folio 152r — Electronic Beowulf facsimilewitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript

Holm perg 15 4° folio 89v

hata / hata / c1200

ONP manuscript record — Holm perg 15 4° with folio 89v scanreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book

The first edition of the Académie française dictionary prints DESASTRE as a headword and defines it as a disastrous accident or misfortune.

désastre / disaster / 1694

Le dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 1 (A–L), première éditionreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book

The first edition of the Académie française dictionary prints HOSTEL as a headword in the historical French family later normalized as hôtel.

hôtel / hotel / 1694

Le dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 1 (A–L), première éditionwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book

The PESTE entry in the first edition of the Académie française dictionary uses quarantaine for imposed isolation after travel from a place suspected of plague.

quarantaine / quarantine / 1694

Le dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 2 (M–Z), première éditionwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book

The first edition of the Académie française dictionary prints SINCERE as a headword and opens with the senses true and frank.

sincère / sincere / 1694

Le dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 2 (M–Z), première éditionreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book

The e-rara object record and searchable scan locate John Harris's dictionary definition of algorithm.

algorithm / algorithm / 1704

Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and scienceswitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗
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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.