WITNESS / 53
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 53
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
Source-reported medieval horizon. SET-U did not inspect a particular underlying Old English manuscript for this record.
Present-Day EnglishFirst known use reported as before the 12th centuryestablished
ten
Merriam-Webster first-known-use record for ten
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- Not fixed
- LOCATOR
- First Known Use
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERten ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 239 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Ten — Definition and Word History
- AUTHOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- mw-ten