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THE GEOGRAPHIC CONTRACT A ROUTE IS A MODEL. Regional pins locate reviewed cultural stages. Approximate pins locate broad reconstructed or contact regions. Global stages stay unpinned. Every route preserves its full editorial sequence; only directly cited, explicitly bounded stages also enter the cross-word Timeline Atlas.
959 REVIEWED ROUTE STAGES Ordered inside 214 complete dossier journeys.
230 HONEST MAP POINTS 231 coordinate pairs exist; global placements are suppressed.
729 NO SINGLE PIN Broad, global, uncertain, or not honestly reducible to one point.
959 DIRECTLY CITED STAGES 1324 claim-level citations; every remaining stage is a frontier task.
578 NUMERIC TIME BOUNDS Source-backed stages now join the cross-word Timeline Atlas .
381 TIME BOUNDS WITHHELD Historic labels remain readable without being parsed into false years.
00 FILTER THE ROUTE ARCHIVE
WHERE DID THE WORD GO? 214 ROUTES / 959 MATCHING STAGES Filters select complete word journeys when any stage matches. The map and route card then preserve the surrounding stages, so a search result never becomes a historically amputated dot.
01 THE REVIEWED GEOGRAPHIC LAYER
WORDS DO NOT MOVE IN STRAIGHT LINES. 230 PLOTTED STAGES 230 plotted stages in matching word journeys -logy, stage 1: Ancient Greek linguistic record — -logiā, logos, and legein -logy, stage 3: Northern France — Old French -logie -logy, stage 4: England — Middle English -logie adverb, stage 2: Roman grammatical tradition — Latin adverbium adverb, stage 3: France and England — Middle French to Middle English aguacate, stage 1: Nahuatl-speaking central Mexico — 1571 Molina record algebra, stage 1: Baghdad — c. 825 algebra, stage 2: Iberian and Latin translation worlds — 12th century algebra, stage 3: England — 1551 algorism, stage 1: Khwārizmian name horizon — approximately 780–850 algorism, stage 2: Medieval Latin Europe — 12th century algorism, stage 3: France and England — 13th–14th centuries algorism, stage 4: Medieval England — 14th century algorithm, stage 1: Khwārizm — 8th–9th centuries algorithm, stage 2: Baghdad — 9th century algorithm, stage 3: Medieval Latin Europe — 12th–15th centuries arithmetic, stage 1: Ancient Greek linguistic world — antiquity arithmetic, stage 2: Latin and medieval French scholarship — 12th–13th centuries arithmetic, stage 3: Medieval England — circa 1250 English horizon betroth, stage 3: England — Middle English bi-/be- plus trouth boy, stage 1: Medieval England — Middle English boi bride, stage 1: Old English language area — Old English brȳd bridegroom, stage 3: Scots and English record — brydegrome in 1525 calculate, stage 3: England — 1542 English first-known-use horizon calculator, stage 1: Roman world — Latin antiquity and Late Latin calculator, stage 2: Medieval England — 14th-century English record calculus, stage 1: Roman world — Latin antiquity calculus, stage 3: England — 1666 English record candid, stage 2: Latin-speaking Mediterranean — Latin antiquity candid, stage 3: France — Middle French, c. 1300–1600 candid, stage 4: England and global English — 1597–today candidate, stage 1: Roman office-seeking practice — Roman antiquity; exact onset unresolved candidate, stage 2: French candidat and learned circulation — 1284 French record; 1546 public-office sense candidate, stage 3: England — 1600 English first-known-use horizon candor, stage 1: Latin-speaking Mediterranean — Latin antiquity candor, stage 2: France — French transmission, date unresolved candor, stage 3: England — 14th-century English record chá, stage 2: Macao and Cantonese maritime contact — 16th century chá, stage 3: Portuguese-language record — current Infopédia record clew, stage 1: Anglo-Saxon England — Old English, before the 12th century clew, stage 2: Medieval England — Middle English, c. 1100–1500 clue, stage 1: Anglo-Saxon England — before 1150 clue, stage 2: English literature — late 16th c. collect, stage 2: Roman world — antiquity collect, stage 3: Anglo-French and Middle English — medieval conscience, stage 2: Roman world — Latin antiquity conscience, stage 3: Medieval France and England — 13th-century English horizon conscious, stage 2: Roman world — Latin antiquity conscious, stage 3: England — circa 1600 English record dairy, stage 1: Old English language area — dǣge, female baker or servant dialogue, stage 2: Ancient Greek speech communities — Ancient Greek record dialogue, stage 3: Roman literary world — Latin antiquity and Late Latin dialogue, stage 4: Medieval England — circa 1200–15th century direct, stage 3: France and England — Anglo-French directer to Middle English directen disaster, stage 2: Italy — Old Italian stage; exact onset unresolved disaster, stage 3: France — Middle French borrowing; exact onset unresolved dough, stage 3: Anglo-Saxon England — dāg before the 12th century emoticon, stage 2: Roman and Francophone transmission — Latin antiquity–16th century emoticon, stage 3: England — 1579 English emotion record emotion, stage 2: Roman and Francophone transmission — Latin antiquity–16th century emotion, stage 3: England — 1579 English record etymological, stage 2: Early Modern England — 1588–1590s source horizons etymologist, stage 1: Medieval and Early Modern English learned vocabulary — late 14th century–1604 etymologist, stage 2: Early Modern England — 1604–1630s source horizons etymologize, stage 1: Medieval English learned vocabulary — late 14th century onward etymologize, stage 2: Early Modern England — 1532 transitive horizon etymologize, stage 3: English semantic expansion — 1650s intransitive horizon etymology, stage 2: Ancient Greece — 1st millennium BCE etymology, stage 3: Rome and medieval Europe — antiquity–14th c. etymon, stage 1: Later Ancient Greek learned usage — Hellenistic and Roman periods etymon, stage 2: Latin scholarly transmission — antiquity–medieval learned use etymon, stage 3: English printed record — 1573 feign, stage 2: Medieval English language area — Middle English feynen and feignen female, stage 2: Roman linguistic world — fēmina to fēmella female, stage 3: France and England — femele to femelle fiction, stage 2: Medieval English language area — Middle English ficcioun figure, stage 3: Medieval France and England — figure in the 13th century fijan, stage 4: Ravenna — early-sixth-century Codex Argenteus witnesses fijan, stage 5: Werden, Ruhr district — sixteenth-century Codex Argenteus custody fijan, stage 6: Prague — imperial custody by 1600 to 1648 fijan, stage 7: Stockholm — Swedish royal custody after 1648 fijan, stage 9: Uppsala University Library — custody since 1669 fijands, stage 5: Ravenna — early-sixth-century Codex Argenteus witnesses fijands, stage 6: Werden, Ruhr district — sixteenth-century Codex Argenteus custody fijands, stage 7: Prague — imperial custody by 1600 to 1648 fijands, stage 8: Stockholm — Swedish royal custody after 1648 fijands, stage 10: Uppsala University Library — custody since 1669 girl, stage 1: Medieval England — Middle English girle hatan, stage 3: Ravenna — early-sixth-century Codex Argenteus witnesses hatan, stage 4: Werden, Ruhr district — sixteenth-century manuscript custody hatan, stage 5: Prague — imperial custody by 1600 to 1648 hatan, stage 6: Stockholm — Swedish royal custody after 1648 hatan, stage 8: Uppsala University Library — custody since 1669 hatis, stage 3: Ravenna — early-sixth-century Codex Argenteus witness hatis, stage 4: Werden, Ruhr district — sixteenth-century Codex Argenteus custody hatis, stage 5: Prague — imperial custody by 1600 to 1648 hatis, stage 6: Stockholm — Swedish royal custody after 1648 hatis, stage 8: Uppsala University Library — custody since 1669 hatizōn, stage 3: Ravenna — early-sixth-century Codex Argenteus hatizōn, stage 4: Werden, Ruhr district — sixteenth-century manuscript custody hatizōn, stage 5: Prague — imperial custody by 1600 to 1648 hatizōn, stage 6: Stockholm — Swedish royal custody after 1648 hatizōn, stage 8: Uppsala University Library — custody since 1669 hatjan, stage 3: Ravenna — early-sixth-century Codex Argenteus hatjan, stage 4: Werden, Ruhr district — sixteenth-century manuscript custody hatjan, stage 5: Prague — imperial custody by 1600 to 1648 hatjan, stage 6: Stockholm — Swedish royal custody after 1648 hatjan, stage 8: Uppsala University Library — custody since 1669 hatōn, stage 4: Corvey catalog attribution — Cgm 25, second half of the ninth century heti, stage 4: Corvey catalog attribution — Cgm 25, second half of the ninth century hospice, stage 3: England — 1818 English lodging horizon hospitality, stage 2: Latin-speaking Mediterranean — Latin antiquity hospitality, stage 3: France and England — medieval French and English transmission hostel, stage 2: England — 14th-century English record hostis, stage 3: Rome — Cicero’s 44 BCE semantic testimony human, stage 2: Roman linguistic world — homō to hūmānus human, stage 3: France and England — humain humble, stage 3: Medieval England and Anglo-French contact — humble in the 13th century humiliate, stage 3: England — circa 1534 English record humiliation, stage 3: Northern France — Middle French before 1449–1495 humiliation, stage 4: England — late 14th-century Middle English humility, stage 3: Northern France — later 10th century–1400 Old French humility, stage 4: England — 14th-century Middle English and English husband, stage 3: Medieval England — hūsbōnda to husbonde hōti, stage 6: Corvey catalog attribution — Cgm 25, second half of the ninth century icon, stage 1: Greek and Roman linguistic worlds — antiquity–Late Latin icon, stage 2: England — 1572 English record icon, stage 3: Eastern Christian and English religious discourse — 1833–today intellect, stage 1: Roman world — Latin antiquity intellect, stage 2: Medieval France — Old French transmission, c. 800–1400 intellect, stage 3: England — 14th-century English record intelligence, stage 2: Roman world — antiquity intelligence, stage 3: France and England — 14th century intelligent, stage 2: Roman world — Latin antiquity intelligent, stage 3: England — circa 1540 English record kapu, stage 2: Hawaiian-language record — 1836 dictionary record–today kayık, stage 3: Modern Turkish kayık — 2023 dictionary record–today lady, stage 2: Medieval England — hlǣfdige to lady law, stage 2: Scandinavia and the Old Norse world — approximately 700–1500 law, stage 3: Anglo-Saxon England — before the 12th century lay, stage 2: Anglo-Saxon England — before the 12th century lay, stage 3: Middle English England — approximately 1150–1500 lecture, stage 2: Roman and medieval scholarly worlds — antiquity–medieval lecture, stage 3: England — 15th century legal, stage 2: Roman world — antiquity legal, stage 3: Anglo-French England — medieval legend, stage 2: Medieval Latin Christendom — medieval legend, stage 3: England — c. 1500 legible, stage 2: Roman and Late Latin world — Latin antiquity–late antiquity legible, stage 3: England — late 14th–15th centuries legislation, stage 3: France — 1372–1374 French record legislation, stage 4: England — 1606 English report lesson, stage 3: England — 13th-century English record liufs, stage 4: Ravenna — early-6th-century Codex Argenteus logic, stage 2: Ancient Greece — 1st millennium BCE logic, stage 3: Latin and medieval French scholarship — antiquity–12th century lord, stage 2: Medieval England — hlāford to loverd love, stage 1: Pontic–Caspian horizon — Proto-Indo-European prehistory love, stage 3: Anglo-Saxon England — Old English period; English record before 12th c. male, stage 1: Roman linguistic world — mās to masculus male, stage 2: France and England — masle to male man, stage 3: Early and medieval England — Old English mann to Middle English man nescience, stage 3: England — 1612 English record omniscient, stage 3: England — 1598 English record person, stage 2: Roman linguistic world — Latin persōna person, stage 3: France and England — persone prescient, stage 2: Roman world — Latin antiquity prescient, stage 3: France — 15th-century French record prescient, stage 4: England — 1620s English record prologue, stage 2: Ancient Greek theatre — Ancient Greek record prologue, stage 3: Roman literary world — Latin antiquity and Late Latin prologue, stage 4: Medieval England — 14th–15th centuries proverb, stage 2: Roman world — Latin proverbium qajaq, stage 2: Greenlandic qajaq terminology — 1987 terminology record–today quarantine, stage 1: Dubrovnik / Ragusa — 1377 thirty-day trentino law realm, stage 3: France and England — Old French reiame to Middle English realme regal, stage 3: France and England — Old French or Anglo-French transmission regular, stage 3: France and England — Anglo-French reguler to Middle English reguler regulate, stage 3: England — Middle English regulate rich, stage 3: England — Old English rīce rich, stage 4: France and England — Old French riche and Middle English riche right, stage 3: England — Old English riht to Middle English right robot, stage 2: Prague — 1920 R.U.R. coinage robot, stage 3: English-language R.U.R. translation and print — 1922 first-use horizon; inspected 1923 edition royal, stage 3: France and England — Anglo-French roial to Middle English roial rule, stage 3: France and England — Anglo-French reule to Middle English reule rí, stage 3: Ireland — Old Irish rí and ríg, 8th–10th centuries salary, stage 2: Roman world — imperial period salary, stage 3: Medieval France — 12th–13th c. salary, stage 4: England — 13th c. first-known-use horizon salt, stage 2: Germanic and Anglo-Saxon Europe — approximately 450–1150 salt, stage 3: England — before the 12th century select, stage 2: England — 1565 adjective horizon select, stage 3: England — 1566 verb horizon sincere, stage 1: Roman world — antiquity sincere, stage 2: France — 15th c.; attestations in 1441 and 1474 sincere, stage 3: England — 1533 first-known-use horizon tapu, stage 2: Aotearoa New Zealand Māori record — 1872 corpus example–today tea, stage 2: Xiamen, Fujian — Southern Min contact era tea, stage 4: England — 1655 onward ten, stage 3: England — recorded before the 12th century tree, stage 3: England — Old English trēow to Middle English tree troth, stage 3: England — Old English trēowþ to Middle English trouth truce, stage 3: England — Old English trēow to Middle English plural trewes true, stage 3: England — Old English trēowe to Middle English trewe trust, stage 3: Scandinavian linguistic horizon — Old Norse traust or a related Scandinavian source trust, stage 4: England — Middle English truste truth, stage 3: England — Old English trēowþ to Middle English trewthe verb, stage 2: Roman world — Latin verbum verb, stage 3: Anglo-French Britain — Latin-to-French-to-English transmission verbal, stage 1: Late Latin learned tradition — verbalis from verbum plus -alis verbal, stage 2: England — 15th-century English record verbatim, stage 1: Roman world — Latin verbum and word-for-word phrases wife, stage 2: Medieval England — wīf to wif woman, stage 2: Medieval England — wīfman to womman word, stage 3: England — Old English record before the 12th century çay, stage 3: Turkey Turkish record — 2023 dictionary edition–today étymologie, stage 1: Ancient Greek learned tradition — Hellenistic and later Greek étymologie, stage 2: Latin grammatical tradition — antiquity–medieval Europe étymologie, stage 3: Old French textual record — c. 1175–1188 étymologie, stage 4: French technical specialization — 1529–1756 étymon, stage 1: Later Ancient Greek learned usage — Hellenistic and Roman periods étymon, stage 2: Latin scholarly transmission — antiquity–medieval learned use étymon, stage 3: French lexicographic record — 1892 μυς, stage 4: Modern Greece — current anatomical usage чай, stage 3: Russian-language record — Vasmer dictionary record ստոյգ, stage 3: Historical Armenian lexicography — 19th-century dictionaries–today چای, stage 3: Persian-language record — Dehkhoda lexicographic record–today ἐτήτυμος, stage 3: Ancient Greek poetic usage — Archaic–Classical record ἔτυμος, stage 3: Later Greek learned usage — Hellenistic and Roman-period records
This is not a GPS trace. Lines appear only when adjacent stages in one selected route both have defensible points. A global stage is not pinned even when a legacy coordinate names the route’s point of departure. Missing locations break the line.
02 ROUTE-BY-ROUTE SEQUENCE TIMELINES
214 MATCHING WORD JOURNEYS PAGE 17 / 27 4 STAGES2 HONEST PINS2 NO SINGLE PIN
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prehistoric NO SINGLE PIN
Indo-European prehistory A gather/select root is reconstructed with a disputed initial consonant.
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antiquity–medieval regional placement
Roman and medieval scholarly worlds legere “read” yields lectus and lectūra “a reading.”
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15th century regional placement
England lecture enters English as an instructional discourse.
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today NO SINGLE PIN
Global education The word names spoken teaching and, figuratively, formal reproof.
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prehistoric NO SINGLE PIN
Indo-European prehistory A gather-root relationship is proposed for lēx, with *leǵ- and *sleǵ- analyses competing.
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antiquity regional placement
Roman world lēx names law and lēgālis names what pertains to it.
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medieval regional placement
Anglo-French England The Latin adjective travels through Anglo-French.
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15th century–today NO SINGLE PIN
Global English legal expands through law, institutions, and rule-governed domains.
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prehistoric NO SINGLE PIN
Indo-European prehistory A gather/select root is reconstructed with a disputed initial consonant.
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medieval regional placement
Medieval Latin Christendom legenda names materials to be read, especially edifying narratives.
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c. 1500 regional placement
England legend enters English reading and inscription traditions.
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today NO SINGLE PIN
Global storytelling and graphics The word spans traditional tales, famous people, inscriptions, and map keys.
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disputed prehistoric gather-and-reading family NO SINGLE PIN
Indo-European linguistic horizon Comparative evidence connects Latin legere with a reconstructed gather root while the *leǵ- / *sleǵ- shape remains disputed.
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Latin antiquity–late antiquity broad placement
Roman and Late Latin world Latin legere “read” supplies Late Latin legibilis “able to be read.”
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late 14th–15th centuries regional placement
England The learned Latin adjective enters Middle English.
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15th century–today NO SINGLE PIN
Global English Literal readability remains central while discernibility and understandability become figurative extensions.
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disputed prehistoric law and carrying roots NO SINGLE PIN
Indo-European linguistic horizons The compound ultimately touches a disputed law-and-gather comparison and a separately reconstructed carrying root.
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Medieval Latin formation NO SINGLE PIN
Medieval Latin Europe Legislatio combines the law component with lātio, a bearing or proposing formation from ferre.
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1372–1374 French record regional placement
France French législation is recorded for a body of laws and later law-making authority.
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1606 English report regional placement
England Merriam-Webster reports English legislation in 1606, earlier than the 1650s horizon in Etymonline.
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17th century–today NO SINGLE PIN
Global English Legislation names law-making, enacted laws, and matters before legislative bodies.
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Latin legere and lectio NO SINGLE PIN
Latin reading culture The gathering-and-selecting verb legere develops a reading sense, and lectio names the act or selection of reading.
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medieval transmission NO SINGLE PIN
Anglo-French transmission Anglo-French leçon carries the reading word into Middle English.
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13th-century English record regional placement
England English lesson is recorded for the reading-and-instruction family in the thirteenth century.
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reading, instruction, and learned-experience senses NO SINGLE PIN
Global English Lesson expands from a reading or assigned text to instruction and to something learned through experience.
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Proto-Indo-European reconstruction NO SINGLE PIN
Indo-European linguistic horizon The German adjective ultimately reaches reconstructed *lewbʰ- through comparative evidence rather than one datable migration event.
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Germanic adjective *leubaz NO SINGLE PIN
Proto-Germanic linguistic horizon Comparative Germanic evidence reconstructs the adjective ancestral to German lieb, Dutch lief, and Gothic liufs.
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Old High German liob NO SINGLE PIN
Old High German textual world Duden reports the Old High German historical form without identifying one manuscript occurrence or localizable first use.
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Middle High German liep NO SINGLE PIN
Middle High German textual continuum The adjective continues as Middle High German liep before the modern German form.
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modern lieb NO SINGLE PIN
Present-day German Duden records the living adjective and its contemporary dear, kind, beloved, and welcome uses.
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Proto-Indo-European reconstruction NO SINGLE PIN
Indo-European linguistic horizon The Dutch adjective ultimately reaches reconstructed *lewbʰ-, a comparison rather than one datable migration event.
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Germanic adjective *leubaz NO SINGLE PIN
Proto-Germanic linguistic horizon Comparative Germanic evidence reconstructs the adjective ancestral to Dutch lief and cognate with Gothic liufs.
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1276–1300 Middle Dutch record NO SINGLE PIN
Eastern Brabant The Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek cites heuet lief in Lutgart A and localizes the record to eastern Brabant.
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modern lief NO SINGLE PIN
Present-day Dutch ANW documents the living adjective, its inflection, pronunciation, and substantivized use.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ 03 WHAT THIS MAP CAN AND CANNOT CLAIM
GEOGRAPHIC HONESTY IS PART OF THE DATA. REGIONAL A defensible cultural or linguistic region can be plotted, but the point summarizes an area rather than an exact address.
APPROXIMATE A reconstructed homeland or contact zone is placed only as a broad visual orientation and uses a distinct dashed marker.
BROAD / GLOBAL A distributed network, era, or world language has no honest single coordinate. It remains in the sequence and off the map.
TIME BOUNDS Directly cited stages may carry exact, range, century, circa, open, or before bounds. Unbounded prose stays unparsed.
SOURCE FRONTIER 959 stages have claim-level citations and 578 have defensible numeric bounds. Every uncited or unbounded stage remains visible unfinished work.