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
VRIEND 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
212
REVIEWED WORD JOURNEY
vriend
OPEN DOSSIER ↗7STAGES0HONEST PINS7NO SINGLE PIN
- 01*prī-NO SINGLE PIN
Proposed Indo-European comparative horizon
The shared friend-family route reaches a proposed comparison, not one archaeological place or directly attested proto-word.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 02*frī-NO SINGLE PIN
Proto-Germanic lexical horizon
The love or favor base is reconstructed from daughter-language evidence and is not pinned to one location.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 03*frijōnd-NO SINGLE PIN
Germanic participial-formation horizon
The loving-agent formation predates Old Dutch; no exact coinage event survives.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 04friunt and friunde around 1100NO SINGLE PIN
Old Dutch textual record
EWN reports two Willeram quotations while SET-U keeps the underlying objects uninspected.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 05vrient and variantsNO SINGLE PIN
Middle Dutch textual record
EWN, MNW, and WNT document early-thirteenth-century and later Middle Dutch forms and a wide semantic inventory.
2 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 06vriend /vrint/NO SINGLE PIN
Modern Dutch-language continuum
The current one-syllable noun coexists with historical and regional variant evidence. Dutch-language use is distributed and is not reduced to one map pin.
2 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 07beyond proposed *prī-NO SINGLE PIN
Knowledge boundary
The route stops before ritual kinship, love, freedom, or friendship is declared the one prehistoric essence.
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.