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This template is used to format the etymology of terms inherited from an earlier stage of the same language. Please only use it under the header 'Etymology'.
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This template is intended for terms that have an unbroken chain of inheritance from the source term in question. For directly borrowed terms, use {{borrowed}}
. For other cases, use {{derived}}
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For example, ten can be traced all the way back to Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥, and thus it is directly inherited from that Proto-Indo-European term. wine, meanwhile, was inherited from Old English, but was borrowed in Old English from Latin. Any inheritance that occurred before a break in the chain does not count as inheritance, and would use {{derived}}
. chair was inherited from Middle English, which borrowed it from Old French, which inherited it from Latin. The English term is thus inherited from Middle English, but not from Latin.
This template should not be used for terms that were reformed morphologically during their history. A morphological change breaks the chain of inheritance. The English term hound does not derive exactly from *ḱwṓ; the stem of the word was extended with a suffix at some point (*ḱun- > *ḱuntó-) and thus cannot be considered an inheritance from the original stem. Instead, it is derived from this stem and should therefore use {{derived}}
. Likewise, hundred can be traced back to Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, but this term was created anew in Proto-Germanic and cannot be traced back further. However, its individual parts can be traced to Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm and the root *Hreh₁dʰ-, so it is derived from these roots, but not inherited.
See also Wiktionary:Information desk/2015/September § Is hound inherited/descended from *ḱwṓ?.
Morphological roots normally have no descendants. Rather, roots are used in word formation, and only the words thus formed have descendants. Consequently, this template should not be used to mark derivation from ancestral roots. English do is not inherited from the root *dʰeh₁-, rather it is inherited from a verb derived from this root, *dʰéh₁t. An exception is if the root is itself inherited as another root. In this situation using {{inh}}
is legitimate. This is mainly the case with Semitic languages, which still have recognisable and productive roots. Similar considerations apply with other morphological elements such as prefixes and suffixes as well. They are only inherited if they remain as recognisable and (somewhat) productive affixes throughout the history of the language. If the affixes are merely present in the word, but are not recognised as meaningful and distinct morphological elements, then they are no longer considered affixes and thus can't be considered descendants.
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