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ALL SOURCES ↗BIBLIOGRAPHIC IDENTITYahd-clew
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historical dictionaryahd-clew
American Heritage Dictionary: clew
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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Can the akin German and Sanskrit forms be used as direct parents?
No. The reviewed source labels Old High German kliuwa and Sanskrit glauḥ as akin forms, not successive ancestors of English clew.
Etymology: Middle English clewe from Old English cliwenIndependently stops the direct published path at Old English.
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EDGE 364contextestablished
clew → clew
Present-Day English → Middle English · inheritance
- SOUND
- Middle English clew / clewe survives as Modern English clew with loss of inflection and stabilized spelling.
- MEANING
- The literal thread-ball sense survives; nautical senses develop from the corner or fastening of a sail and the guiding spelling clue diverges later.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors
Headword clew; etymologyIndependently publishes the Middle English and Old English ancestry.
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