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first use
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decimate
To destroy or reduce drastically; borrowed from a Latin verb built on “tenth” and first used in English for killing every tenth member of a group.
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emotion
Feeling or affect; borrowed through French from a Latin movement family and first used in English for disturbance, agitation, or social movement.
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hatizōn
A Gothic weak verb meaning be angry with or at someone, represented by exactly one verified corpus token: present active second-person plural hatizoþ in John 7:23. Project Wulfila and Streitberg align the form with Greek χολᾶτε in the question “are you angry at me?” and analyze the verb with a dative object. The University of Texas derivational grammar builds class-II hatizōn on the consonantal stem hatiz- of hatis “hatred” or “wrath”; Wright independently lists it as a class-II weak verb. The macronized infinitive is a scholarly citation form, while the manuscript writes only the inflected token without a vowel-length mark. The route continues through the reviewed Germanic noun family and a qualified Indo-European comparison, then stops. One corpus token cannot establish spoken rarity, first use, a complete semantic range, exact pronunciation, or one prehistoric essence.
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HISTORICAL FORMS
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 12
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Was emoticon first used in 1987 or only by 1992?
Merriam-Webster reports first known use in 1987; Etymonline reports the word by January 1992 and quotes an August 1992 explanation.
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Was emotion first used in the 1570s or exactly 1579?
Etymonline gives the decade; Merriam-Webster gives 1579. These are compatible levels of precision, not proof of one first utterance.
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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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Does the Beowulf quotation prove the first use of friend?
No. It is one source-reported Old English textual witness, not a birth certificate for the word or its earliest surviving physical token.
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Does the 1343 Behaim work establish the first use of hassen?
No. It supplies two located historical contexts, not a complete comparison of all earlier witnesses or a token-level earliest-use proof.
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Does the John 7:7 record establish the first use of hatian?
No. It is one edited occurrence among many textual traditions. Without a complete witness comparison and direct manuscript inspection, it cannot be promoted as the earliest surviving token.
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Is the c.1150-1200 Hatr token the first known use?
Not established. The inspected object proves a token in that codex; neither ONP nor the facsimile inspection licenses a global earliest-surviving-use claim.
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Does the Munich manuscript date prove an 875 first use?
No. The manuscript is cataloged to the second half of the ninth century, while the Heliand work is dated circa 830–840. The numeric 875 is only a representative object date for timeline placement.
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Does the ninth-century label prove the first use of hazzōn?
No. It is the century attached to the form in one comparative database, not a demonstrated search of every earlier manuscript, gloss, and edition.
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Does the Beowulf quotation establish the first use of hete?
No. It is one located edited occurrence among many textual traditions listed by the dictionaries. Without a complete witness comparison and direct manuscript inspection, it cannot be promoted as the first surviving token.
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Does the representative year 875 prove a first use of heti?
No. The Heliand work is earlier than the Munich copy, and other witnesses have distinct or unresolved object dates. The numeric year only positions a second-half ninth-century manuscript.
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Does the Phoenix hettende establish the first use of hettan?
No. It is one edited poetic occurrence of an ambiguous form. Without a complete witness comparison and direct manuscript inspection, it cannot establish the first token of the lemma.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
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