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historical dictionaryoed-clue

Oxford English Dictionary: clue, n.

AUTHOR / EDITOR
Oxford English Dictionary Editors
YEAR
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PUBLISHER
Oxford University Press
DOI
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SOURCE TYPE
historical dictionary
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RANK 06GRADE Asupports

Evidence became a thread you could follow.

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

cliewen

cliewen → clew “ball of thread” → guiding thread → clue “evidence”

Historical senses

Documents the figurative guiding-thread development associated with the labyrinth tradition.

clue dossier ↗truth record ↗95UNVEILING
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS

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EDGE 21supportsestablished

clue → clew

Present-Day English → Middle English · semantic specialization

SOUND
The spelling clue became standard for the figurative sense while clew remained literal.
MEANING
A guiding thread became a fact that guides reasoning.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
OED editors
Historical senses

Documents figurative development.

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EDGE 23supportsboundary

cliewen → UNKNOWN

Old English → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND
Competing remote Germanic reconstructions are withheld.
MEANING
The site stops before false certainty begins.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Editorial evidence boundary
Etymology

Remote proposals do not command consensus.

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COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE

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clue

clew

English

literal surviving doublet

clue

Klüngel

German

proposed Germanic relation

clue

Ariadne’s thread

Greek myth

semantic catalyst, not ancestor

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stage 2supports

English literature

Documents the transition from a literal ball or guiding thread to a figurative guide, the semantic change represented by the English-literature stage.

clue→late 16th c.
Historical senses: literal clew and figurative guide · regional
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