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
FREUND 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
211
REVIEWED WORD JOURNEY
Freund
OPEN DOSSIER ↗7STAGES0HONEST PINS7NO SINGLE PIN
- 01*prī-NO SINGLE PIN
Proposed Indo-European comparative horizon
The shared friend-family route reaches a proposed comparative root, not one archaeological site, written token, or recoverable institution.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 02*frī-NO SINGLE PIN
Proto-Germanic lexical horizon
The love or favor base is reconstructed from daughter-language evidence; no single homeland point or recorded token is claimed.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 03*frijōnd-NO SINGLE PIN
Germanic participial-formation horizon
The loving-agent noun predates the daughter-language records, but its exact lexicalization moment remains reconstructed.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 04friunt from the eighth centuryNO SINGLE PIN
Old High German textual record
Pfeifer dates the form to the eighth century; Grimm supplies source-reported Old High German quotations.
2 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 05vriuntNO SINGLE PIN
Middle High German textual record
Pfeifer and Grimm document friend, neighbor, lover, and relative senses across the Middle High German record.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 06FreundNO SINGLE PIN
Modern German-language continuum
DWDS and Duden document current companion, partner, supporter, patron, ally, and address senses. German is pluricentric and is not reduced to one map pin.
2 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 07beyond proposed *prī-NO SINGLE PIN
Knowledge boundary
The route stops before love, freedom, kinship, and friendship are merged into one prehistoric story.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗
03
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.