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 / 7 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
FRAENDI 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
213
REVIEWED WORD JOURNEY
frændi
OPEN DOSSIER ↗7STAGES0HONEST PINS7NO SINGLE PIN
- 01*prī-NO SINGLE PIN
Proposed Indo-European comparative horizon
American Heritage places the shared Germanic friend and free family under a reconstructed Indo-European root. This is not a written token, recoverable institution, or single archaeological coordinate.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 02*frī-NO SINGLE PIN
Proto-Germanic linguistic horizon
The like, love, or friendly base is reconstructed from daughter-language evidence; no Proto-Germanic speaker, homeland point, or written occurrence is claimed.
2 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 03*frijōnd-NO SINGLE PIN
Germanic participial-formation horizon
The loving-agent formation predates the daughter-language records, but its exact lexicalization moment and full paradigm remain reconstructed.
2 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 04frændi / editorial frǽndiNO SINGLE PIN
Old Norse textual world
ONP documents friend, foster-brother or companion, relative or son, parents, and ancestor uses across the Old Norse prose record without reducing the language to one birthplace.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 05circa 1200–1400NO SINGLE PIN
Medieval Icelandic manuscript witnesses
ONP links dated Icelandic manuscripts and edited citations for friend, kin, inheritance, and ancestor contexts. The witnesses locate textual survival, not the word’s origin.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 06Danish frænde and Swedish frändeNO SINGLE PIN
Later Scandinavian continuation
The inherited formation continues in relation or kinsman words while English, German, and Dutch cognates center friend. No branch is treated as semantically original by default.
2 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 07beyond the proposed *prī- comparisonNO SINGLE PIN
Knowledge boundary
The trail ends before love, friendship, kinship, freedom, alliance, or ritual brotherhood is promoted as the one recoverable prehistoric essence.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗
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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.