I looked through the Data Model for Lexemes. Began playing around and looking at some of the existing data. Then I wondered about word origins.

Example: "Neighborhood Electric Vehicle" is a phrase first coined in the 1970's. The earliest specific reference for this phrase is in the 1978 California Penal Code which could be pointed to as a reference.

Is there are use case for Etymology with Lexemes ? Specifically, not just the origin of the word pointing to a previous word...through use of the existing P5191 derived from https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5191 property, but when a new phrase is actually introduced to the world, typically because of a Fad, Technology, etc.

How would the year "1978" and the reference work "California Penal Code" be utilized for the earliest known date of usage for a phrase ?

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