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35,981 English word records · 45,491 etymology sections in this online subset
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024Te-
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
nouncontrarian claim
candidate
A person seeking selection or office; ultimately the Roman office-seeker dressed in a bright white toga.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗noundossier summary
chá
The Portuguese word for tea, a European cha-type form associated with sixteenth-century Portuguese contact through Macao rather than the Dutch te-type route.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗Old High German weak-verb citation formdossier summary
hazzōn
An Old High German citation form in the inherited Germanic hate-verb family, printed beside hazzēn and spelling variants hazēn, hazōn, haʒʒēn, and haʒʒōn. Starling’s source record dates hazzēn to the eighth century and hazzōn to the ninth; Duden and Grimm’s DWB group the ēn and ōn forms in the history of German hassen. Corpus-wide research independently shows that some Old High German class-III ēn verbs also occur with class-II ōn forms, but the accessible abstract does not establish that hazzōn is one of its twenty repeatedly attested double forms. DWB reports haʒôn aligned with Latin aemulari and the forms hatamas and hatent with insequamur and insequuntur. Those reports support an action range involving following or hostile pursuit; they are not directly inspected manuscript tokens. Pokorny’s account, as transmitted by Starling, explicitly warns that the Germanic evidence does not prove “pursue” was the root’s basic meaning. The route therefore distinguishes the normalized headword, the combined historical variants, the reconstructed Germanic weak verb and noun family, the qualified Indo-European comparison, and the point where knowledge ends.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Latin / Indo-European
candidātus
a person standing for office; the white-clad one
- DATE
- Roman antiquity
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Beyond secure reconstruction
UNKNOWN SUBSTRATE SOURCE
A possible non-Indo-European source shared by Latin calculus and Greek káchlēx
- DATE
- undated Mediterranean substrate hypothesis
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 0
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WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 6
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Can one coinage event be named for enemy becoming the Devil?
No unique event is established. OED explains a recurring ultimate-enemy use shaped by Latin hostis and the adversary meaning behind satan, but does not identify one inventor or first metaphorical moment.
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Was algorithm first used in 1699 or 1926?
Both dates describe different editorial claims. Oxford/MacTutor reports the spelling in 1699 for numeral calculation; Merriam-Webster gives 1926 for the currently defined finite-procedure sense.
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Could frēond mean political ally or non-enemy?
Yes. OED cites the early Old English Orosius translation for Hannibal never becoming a friend of the Romans and separates ally from intimate-companion use.
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Did hetzen begin as a modern political hate-speech verb?
No. The Middle High German dictionary centers the verb on driving dogs to hunt and already records transferred human conflict; Early New High German sources later make incitement explicit.
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Is the surviving -red element the color red?
No. It is the reduced relic of Old English -ræden, a condition or state-forming element. The wider pattern once made social and abstract nouns and survives principally in kindred and hatred.
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Does every language follow a simple sea-versus-land rule?
No. WALS documents a powerful distributional tendency, not a universal law: 110 sampled languages have Sinitic cha-derived forms, 84 have Min Nan te-derived forms, and 36 belong to neither class.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
RANK 42GRADE Aranked reveal
The ordinary Old Norse enemy outlived the finite hate verb behind it.
ONP classifies fjá as poetic and exposes no prose citations. Cleasby, Fritzner, and Lexicon Poeticum converge on three Eddic contexts, while normalized texts preserve active fjá, finite fíár, and reflexive fiásk. Cleasby then points to fjándi as the participial relative that remained across Germanic. ONP gives that separate enemy noun 222 prose citations and a large semantic range. The two corpus totals are not directly frequency-comparable, and neither proves an exact extinction event; together they reveal the asymmetry between a tiny finite-verb record and the prolific lexicalized enemy branch.
RANK 180GRADE A-ranked reveal
Tea and chai are the same word after different journeys.
Both routes ultimately reach Chinese 茶. The te-type form traveled especially through Southern Min and Dutch maritime networks; the cha/chai-type family spread especially overland. WALS shows this is a global tendency with real exceptions, not a perfect rule.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
institutional lexicon4 CLAIM LINKS
Tapu — Te Aka Māori Dictionary
John C. Moorfield / 2026
citation-key prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗historical grammar15 CLAIM LINKS
A Gothic Grammar with Selections for Reading and a Glossary — hatan and hatjan
Wilhelm Braune · translated and edited by Gerhard H. Balg / 1895
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗historical grammar11 CLAIM LINKS
Grammar of the Gothic Language — glossary entries hatan, hatis, hatizōn, and hatjan
Joseph Wright / 1910
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗editorial reference4 CLAIM LINKS
The Original Definition of Decimate
Merriam-Webster Editors / 2026
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗historical dictionary0 CLAIM LINKS
hāte n. — Middle English Dictionary search record
Robert E. Lewis et al. · Frances McSparran et al. / 2001
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
No reviewed record in this collection contains “te-.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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