Ordered inside 214 complete dossier journeys.
THE JOURNEY ATLAS
TIMELINE ATLAS ↗MAP THE ROUTE / KEEP THE LIMIT
PLACE → PERIOD → TRANSFORMATIONWORDS HAVE
ADDRESSES.
Trace where a word’s reviewed history passed through—and see every broad, global, or uncertain stage that cannot honestly be reduced to one point.
A ROUTE IS A MODEL.
NOT A GPS TRACE.
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.
231 coordinate pairs exist; global placements are suppressed.
Broad, global, uncertain, or not honestly reducible to one point.
1324 claim-level citations; every remaining stage is a frontier task.
Source-backed stages now join the cross-word Timeline Atlas.
Historic labels remain readable without being parsed into false years.
001 ROUTES / 8 MATCHING STAGES
FILTER THE ROUTE ARCHIVE
WHERE DID THE WORD GO?
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.
010 PLOTTED STAGES
THE REVIEWED GEOGRAPHIC LAYER
FIEND ON THE MAP
REGIONAL PLACEMENTAPPROXIMATE / RECONSTRUCTED REGIONGLOBAL OR UNLOCATED — NO SINGLE PIN
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.
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ROUTE-BY-ROUTE SEQUENCE TIMELINES
1 MATCHING WORD JOURNEYS
188
REVIEWED WORD JOURNEY
fiend
OPEN DOSSIER ↗8STAGES0HONEST PINS8NO SINGLE PIN
- 01proposed *peh₁- comparisonNO SINGLE PIN
Proto-Indo-European linguistic horizon
A deeper harm, blame, suffering, or hate comparison is published, but its exact formation and semantic unity remain proposed.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 02*fi(j)ēn- and lexicalized *fi(j)and-NO SINGLE PIN
Proto-Germanic linguistic horizon
Germanic branches preserve both the hate verb and lexicalized present-participial enemy noun. The asterisked forms are comparative reconstructions.
2 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 03fēond, fīond, fīend, and fȳndNO SINGLE PIN
Old English-speaking England
Dialect and inflection create multiple Old English vowels and plural patterns without creating separate enemy lexemes. Enemy, foe, and Devil uses coexist in the written record.
2 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 04fẹ̄nd, fend, feend, fiend, and extensive variationNO SINGLE PIN
Middle English written record
The Middle English Dictionary records 188 quotations across eight senses; OED’s forms preserve inherited plurals and regional spellings while enemy, Devil, demon, possession, and monster uses overlap.
2 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 05competing long and short vowelsNO SINGLE PIN
Early Modern English record
OED reports both long- and short-vowel pronunciations alongside spelling variation before the long vowel becomes dominant.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 06long-vowel pronunciation becomes dominantNO SINGLE PIN
Eighteenth-century English record
OED’s later-development note places the dominance of the long-vowel pronunciation by the eighteenth century.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 07modern fiendNO SINGLE PIN
Global English
The literal enemy or foe sense is obsolete, while Devil, demon, wicked-person, harmful-thing, and later figurative uses continue in global English.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 08beyond the proposed Indo-European comparisonNO SINGLE PIN
Knowledge boundary
No single hater, enemy, Devil, adversary, harm, blame, suffering, or hostility origin is promoted beyond the qualified route.
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WHAT THIS MAP CAN AND CANNOT CLAIM
GEOGRAPHIC HONESTY IS PART OF THE DATA.
A defensible cultural or linguistic region can be plotted, but the point summarizes an area rather than an exact address.
A reconstructed homeland or contact zone is placed only as a broad visual orientation and uses a distinct dashed marker.
A distributed network, era, or world language has no honest single coordinate. It remains in the sequence and off the map.
Directly cited stages may carry exact, range, century, circa, open, or before bounds. Unbounded prose stays unparsed.
959 stages have claim-level citations and 578 have defensible numeric bounds. Every uncited or unbounded stage remains visible unfinished work.