820 canonical forms + 578 route stages.
THE TIMELINE ATLAS
JOURNEY ATLAS ↗FORM / ROUTE / BOUND
1398 REVIEWED EVENTSLANGUAGE
IN TIME.
One cross-word chronology for every defensibly bounded form and journey stage—without converting a vague historical label into a fake year.
A reviewed graph bound, not a claim of an earliest human word.
Only stages with directly cited numeric bounds enter this atlas.
Labels remain visible in Journey Atlas, but not parsed into false years.
001398 MATCHING EVENTS
FILTER THE CHRONOLOGY
WHEN DID THE EVIDENCE LAND?
TWO CLOCKS.
NO FALSE PRECISION.
FORM CHRONOLOGY dates a canonical linguistic form or reconstruction in the lexical graph.
ROUTE CHRONOLOGY dates a geographic or transmission stage in a word’s journey.
They can share an era band, but they are never silently treated as the same kind of claim.
CROSS-WORD CHRONOLOGY / EARLIEST BOUND FIRST
THE EVIDENCE IN TIME
Prehistory30 ON THIS PAGE
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*lewbʰ-
c. 4500–2500 BCE
to love, desire, care for
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*set-u-
prehistoric
true; real; in true order
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*séh₂l-
c. 4500–2500 BCE
salt
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*h₂ster-
c. 4500–2500 BCE
star
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*kand-
Indo-European prehistory
to shine; glow
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*kʷetwóres
c. 4500–2500 BCE
four
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*leǵ-
Indo-European prehistory
to collect, gather; with descendants involving speaking
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*h₃órbʰos
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
person or property transferred; bereaved person, orphan, or dependent
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*mūs-
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
mouse; also the family behind specialized muscle words
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*ghos-pot-
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
guest-master; person embodying a reciprocal hospitality relationship
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*ghos-ti-
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
stranger, guest, host; person with reciprocal duties of hospitality
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*pot-
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
master; one in control
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*ǵhes-
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
take or give in exchange; hypothetical deeper base of *ghos-ti-
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*skei-
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
cut, split; proposed source of a discern > know development
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*dekm̥
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
ten
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*tkeH-
dialectal Indo-European prehistory
rule, have power, possess
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*h₃ekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
catch sight of, envisage
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*(s)kend-
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
to shine or make shine
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*bher-
Proto-Indo-European prehistory
to carry or bear
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*legh-
Indo-European prehistory
to lie, recline, lay, or set down
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*h₂rei-
Indo-European prehistory
to count
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*meue-
Indo-European prehistory
to push away
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*setu-mo-
Proto-Indo-European formation, proposed
true, real
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*set-eu-o-
Proto-Indo-European adjectival formation, proposed
having or containing true order; real
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*stéu-gho-
Proto-Indo-European Armenian preform, proposed
real; certain
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEIndo-European linguistic horizon
-rīx
*h₃reg̑- and lengthened *rēg-
The straight-and-direct family develops a ruler or king formation.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval marks the project’s comparative horizon; it is not a pinpointed homeland, event, or attested token.
AUDIT RECORD ↗4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEIndo-European linguistic horizon
rēx
*h₃reg̑- to lengthened *rēg-
The straight-and-direct family develops the reconstructed ruler or king grade.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval marks the project’s comparative horizon; it is not a dated king title, homeland point, or social institution.
AUDIT RECORD ↗4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEIndo-European comparative horizon
king
*ǵenh₁- and suffixed zero grade
The reviewed trail begins in a reconstructed birth-and-generation family whose derivatives name lineage and kin.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval is the project’s comparative horizon, not a point homeland, first word, or date for monarchy.
AUDIT RECORD ↗4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEIndo-European comparative horizon
kin
*ǵenh₁- and suffixed zero grade
The reviewed trail begins in a reconstructed begetting and generation family whose derivatives name lineages, kinds, and kin groups.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval is the project’s comparative horizon, not a point homeland, first word, or biological population claim.
AUDIT RECORD ↗4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*wr̥-dho-
Proto-Indo-European suffixed zero grade
something spoken; word
UNBOUNDED IS
A REAL RESULT.
Stages without source-backed numeric bounds stay in their complete Journey Atlas route, carry an explicit temporal note, and remain absent here until the evidence supports normalization. The missing point is visible work—not permission to guess.