Etymograph

English

Hauptvermutung

Hauptvermutung comes from German Hauptvermutung, from Vermutung ‘conjecture’, and ultimately from Middle Low German vormōden.

  1. Middle Low Germanc. 1200–1600vormōden
  2. Germanc. 1650–presentvermuten‘to assume, suppose, presume, suspect, (US) guess’
  3. German, derivedc. 1650–presentVermutung‘conjecture’
  4. German, derivedc. 1650–presentHauptvermutung
  5. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Middle Low Germanc. 1200–1600vormōden
  2. Germanc. 1650–presentvermuten‘to assume, suppose, presume, suspect, (US) guess’
  3. German, derivedc. 1650–presentVermutung‘conjecture’
  4. German, derivedc. 1650–presentHauptvermutung
  5. Englishtodaysame form

Every English word from Middle Low German vormōden

Today it means

noun The conjecture, now proven false, that any two triangulations of a triangulable space have a common refinement, a single triangulation that is a subdivision of both of them.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Middle Low German vormōden / Hauptvermutung

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