WITNESS / 52
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 52
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
Source-reported lexicographic date for the modern English culinary sense. SET-U did not inspect the underlying primary object.
Present-Day EnglishFirst known use reported as 1984established
chai
Merriam-Webster first-known-use record for chai
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- 1984
- LOCATOR
- First Known Use of chai
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERchai ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 233 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Chai — Definition and Word History
- AUTHOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- mw-chai