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Girl — American Heritage Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
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- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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Does girl have a securely known Old English ancestor?
No. American Heritage labels the origin unknown; the Middle English Dictionary marks *gyrela and a gierela garment comparison as uncertain.
Etymology: origin unknownDefines the secure boundary.
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girle → UNKNOWN
Middle English → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary
- SOUND
- No established parent is promoted beyond Middle English girle.
- MEANING
- The secure trail ends before an uncertain Old English and garment comparison.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- SET-U editorial boundary
Etymology: Middle English girle, origin unknownDefines the secure evidence boundary.
girle → *gyrela
Middle English → Old English · proposed inheritance
- SOUND
- Middle English girle has been derived from a reconstructed Old English *gyrela.
- MEANING
- The child or young-person field is projected backward only tentatively.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Middle English Dictionary Editors
Etymology: origin unknownPrevents promotion of the proposed predecessor.
girle → gierela
Middle English → Old English · proposed comparison
- SOUND
- Middle English girle has been compared with Old English gierela, garment.
- MEANING
- A garment word is proposed as a lexical comparison without a secure semantic bridge.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Middle English Dictionary Editors
Etymology: origin unknownPrevents promotion of the garment hypothesis.
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Beyond secure reconstruction
Defines the evidential and geographic boundary.
Etymology: origin unknown · uncertainNON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
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